The central point was “don’t fan the flames of an AI race with China by carelessly suggesting it’s already happening or inevitable”.
The central example is that saying something like “China has made numerous attempts to bypass restrictions on chip imports” is inflammatory when the truth is something more like “some companies in China have been getting chips in ways that bypass restrictions on chip imports, but we don’t think the Chinese government probably had anything to do with it”.
This post was important in retrospect.
If only we’d all read it and listened.
The central point was “don’t fan the flames of an AI race with China by carelessly suggesting it’s already happening or inevitable”.
The central example is that saying something like “China has made numerous attempts to bypass restrictions on chip imports” is inflammatory when the truth is something more like “some companies in China have been getting chips in ways that bypass restrictions on chip imports, but we don’t think the Chinese government probably had anything to do with it”.