The things you mention are all important too, but I think we have better guesses on all of those.
Xi is widely considered to be highly intelligent. We also have reason to believe he understands why AGI could be a real x-risk (I don’t remember the link for “is Xi Jinping a doomer?” or similar).
That’s enough to guess that he understands (or will soon enough).
I’d be shocked if he just didn’t care about the future of humanity. Getting to control that would tempt most people, let alone those who seek power. I’d be shocked if he (or anyone) delegated decisions on AGI if they remotely understood their possible consequences (although you’d certainly delegate people to help think about them. That could be important if he was stupid or malleable, which Xi is not—unless he becomes senile or paranoiac, which he might).
The Wikileaks information parallels the informed speculation I’ve found on his character. None of that really helps much to establish whether he’s sociopathic, sadistic, or risk-taking enough to doom us all.
(I tend to think that 99% of humanity is probably sane and empathetic enough to get good results from an intent-aligned AGI (since it can help them think about the issue), but it’s hard to know since nobody has ever been in that position, ever.)
The things you mention are all important too, but I think we have better guesses on all of those.
Xi is widely considered to be highly intelligent. We also have reason to believe he understands why AGI could be a real x-risk (I don’t remember the link for “is Xi Jinping a doomer?” or similar).
That’s enough to guess that he understands (or will soon enough).
I’d be shocked if he just didn’t care about the future of humanity. Getting to control that would tempt most people, let alone those who seek power. I’d be shocked if he (or anyone) delegated decisions on AGI if they remotely understood their possible consequences (although you’d certainly delegate people to help think about them. That could be important if he was stupid or malleable, which Xi is not—unless he becomes senile or paranoiac, which he might).
The Wikileaks information parallels the informed speculation I’ve found on his character. None of that really helps much to establish whether he’s sociopathic, sadistic, or risk-taking enough to doom us all.
(I tend to think that 99% of humanity is probably sane and empathetic enough to get good results from an intent-aligned AGI (since it can help them think about the issue), but it’s hard to know since nobody has ever been in that position, ever.)