“ He grew up in a Jewish family in Europe.[9] Helberg is openly gay.[10] He married American investor Keith Rabois in a 2018 ceremony officiated by Sam Altman.”
Might this be an angle to understand the influence that Sam Altman has on recent developments in the US government?
This chapter on AI follows immediately after the year in review, I went and checked the previous few years’ annual reports to see what the comparable chapters were about, they are
2023: China’s Efforts To Subvert Norms and Exploit Open Societies
2022: CCP Decision-Making and Xi Jinping’s Centralization Of Authority
2021: U.S.-China Global Competition (Section 1: The Chinese Communist Party’s Ambitions and Challenges at its Centennial
2020: U.S.-China Global Competition (Section 1: A Global Contest For Power and Influence: China’s View of Strategic Competition With the United States)
And this year it’s Technology And Consumer
Product Opportunities and Risks
(Chapter 3: U.S.-China Competition in
Emerging Technologies)
Reminds of when Richard Ngo said something along the lines of “We’re not going to be bottlenecked by politicians not caring about AI safety. As AI gets crazier and crazier everyone would want to do AI safety, and the question is guiding people to the right AI safety policies”
We’re not going to be bottlenecked by politicians not caring about AI safety. As AI gets crazier and crazier everyone would want to do AI safety, and the question is guiding people to the right AI safety policies
I think we’re seeing more interest in AI, but I think interest in “AI in general” and “AI through the lens of great power competition with China” has vastly outpaced interest in “AI safety”. (Especially if we’re using a narrow definition of AI safety; note that people in DC often use the term “AI safety” to refer to a much broader set of concerns than AGI safety/misalignment concerns.)
I do think there’s some truth to the quote (we are seeing more interest in AI and some safety topics), but I think there’s still a lot to do to increase the salience of AI safety (and in particular AGI alignment) concerns.
’The report doesn’t go into specifics but the idea seems to be to build / commandeer the computing resources to scale to AGI, which could include compelling the private labs to contribute talent and techniques.
DX rating is the highest priority DoD procurement standard. It lets DoD compel companies, set their own price, skip the line, and do basically anything else they need to acquire the good in question.′ https://x.com/hamandcheese/status/1858902373969564047
’🚨 The annual report of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission is now live. 🚨
Its top recommendation is for Congress and the DoD to fund a Manhattan Project-like program to race to AGI.
Buckle up...′
https://x.com/hamandcheese/status/1858897287268725080
In the reuters article they highlight Jacob Helberg: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/us-government-commission-pushes-manhattan-project-style-ai-initiative-2024-11-19/
He seems quite influential in this initiative and recently also wrote this post:
https://republic-journal.com/journal/11-elements-of-american-ai-supremacy/
Wikipedia has the following paragraph on Helberg:
“ He grew up in a Jewish family in Europe.[9] Helberg is openly gay.[10] He married American investor Keith Rabois in a 2018 ceremony officiated by Sam Altman.”
Might this be an angle to understand the influence that Sam Altman has on recent developments in the US government?
This chapter on AI follows immediately after the year in review, I went and checked the previous few years’ annual reports to see what the comparable chapters were about, they are
2023: China’s Efforts To Subvert Norms and Exploit Open Societies
2022: CCP Decision-Making and Xi Jinping’s Centralization Of Authority
2021: U.S.-China Global Competition (Section 1: The Chinese Communist Party’s Ambitions and Challenges at its Centennial
2020: U.S.-China Global Competition (Section 1: A Global Contest For Power and Influence: China’s View of Strategic Competition With the United States)
And this year it’s Technology And Consumer Product Opportunities and Risks (Chapter 3: U.S.-China Competition in Emerging Technologies)
Reminds of when Richard Ngo said something along the lines of “We’re not going to be bottlenecked by politicians not caring about AI safety. As AI gets crazier and crazier everyone would want to do AI safety, and the question is guiding people to the right AI safety policies”
I think we’re seeing more interest in AI, but I think interest in “AI in general” and “AI through the lens of great power competition with China” has vastly outpaced interest in “AI safety”. (Especially if we’re using a narrow definition of AI safety; note that people in DC often use the term “AI safety” to refer to a much broader set of concerns than AGI safety/misalignment concerns.)
I do think there’s some truth to the quote (we are seeing more interest in AI and some safety topics), but I think there’s still a lot to do to increase the salience of AI safety (and in particular AGI alignment) concerns.
’The report doesn’t go into specifics but the idea seems to be to build / commandeer the computing resources to scale to AGI, which could include compelling the private labs to contribute talent and techniques.
DX rating is the highest priority DoD procurement standard. It lets DoD compel companies, set their own price, skip the line, and do basically anything else they need to acquire the good in question.′ https://x.com/hamandcheese/status/1858902373969564047
(screenshot in post from PDF page 39 of https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/2024_Annual_Report_to_Congress.pdf)
‘China hawk and influential Trump AI advisor Jacob Helberg asserted to Reuters that “China is racing towards AGI,” but I couldn’t find any evidence in the report to support that claim.’ https://x.com/GarrisonLovely/status/1859022323799699474