One of the members of the committee that authored this (if not the chairperson) is Yi Zeng. He’s persistently engaged in conversations with CSER and other AI ethics groups in the UK, Australia, at the UN, etc.; I’ve met him at a few events and I believe that most of the values quoted above are really sincerely held. My main concern here is rather that these values are still stated in terms that may be too vague to interpret and enforce uniformly as a practical regulation throughout the large Chinese AI industry. But it’s no doubt a step in the right direction toward being actually binding on relevant actions.
confirmed. as far as i can tell (i’ve talked to him for about 2h in total) yi really seems to care, and i’m really impressed by his ability to influence such official documents.
My main concern here is rather that these values are still stated in terms that may be too vague to interpret and enforce uniformly as a practical regulation throughout the large Chinese AI industry.
It seems like the Chinese government believes in being able to enforce good behavior from tech companies no matter whether the regulations are vague.
If you are Jeff Bezos and violate a vague rule of the US government little will happen to you. If you are Jack Ma and violate a vague rule in which the Chinese government believes you have a problem.
This has the collary that it might be helpful to have an EA organization that regularly goes through the actions of Chinese companies and builds capabilities to create PR campaigns to highlite Chinese companies who violate those rules.
Yes, as would have been putting pressure on the Wuhan Lab not to do gain-of-function research under biosafety level 2 prior to the pandemic. At the same time it would have been very valuable to do so.
One of the members of the committee that authored this (if not the chairperson) is Yi Zeng. He’s persistently engaged in conversations with CSER and other AI ethics groups in the UK, Australia, at the UN, etc.; I’ve met him at a few events and I believe that most of the values quoted above are really sincerely held. My main concern here is rather that these values are still stated in terms that may be too vague to interpret and enforce uniformly as a practical regulation throughout the large Chinese AI industry. But it’s no doubt a step in the right direction toward being actually binding on relevant actions.
confirmed. as far as i can tell (i’ve talked to him for about 2h in total) yi really seems to care, and i’m really impressed by his ability to influence such official documents.
It seems like the Chinese government believes in being able to enforce good behavior from tech companies no matter whether the regulations are vague.
If you are Jeff Bezos and violate a vague rule of the US government little will happen to you. If you are Jack Ma and violate a vague rule in which the Chinese government believes you have a problem.
This has the collary that it might be helpful to have an EA organization that regularly goes through the actions of Chinese companies and builds capabilities to create PR campaigns to highlite Chinese companies who violate those rules.
This might be seen as an outside attack though.
Yes, as would have been putting pressure on the Wuhan Lab not to do gain-of-function research under biosafety level 2 prior to the pandemic. At the same time it would have been very valuable to do so.