It's a bold strategy, Cotton - let's see if it plays off for them. 4/4

undermined. That's stuff that is salient to a LOT of people. Now the American people get to see - loudly and clearly - that this same part of the industry is directly trying to interfere in their democracy; trying to kill of the chances of the politicians that hear them. 3/4

They don't dislike it because of 'EA billionaires'.They dislike it because of Meta's chatbots behaving 'romantically' towards their children,gambling and bot farms funded by a16z,suicides in which ChatGPT played an apparent role, and concerns their jobs will be affected and their creative rights2/4

The report takes seriously the possibility and risks of AGI and superintelligence - but more than that, it takes seriously the steps needed to address them in a global, collaborative manner that acknowledges commerical and geopolitical pressures. I'd love to see it read and shared. 4/4

- liability and verification mechanisms, compliance review, tiered dialogue mechanisms, and cross-border dispute resolution procedures.

Huge gratitude to the excellent writing team, and panel of leading Chinese and international experts who put so much time into this. 3/4

aimed at minimising frontier AI risk. Including

- Collaborative technology tracking and early warning systems
- Internationally shared safety evaluation tools & platforms
- dynamic governance rules to avoid ossification
- emergency intervention mechanisms for catastrophic risks 2/4

are more sceptical of superintelligence than under the previous administration, and the 'AI as a normal technology' scientific worldview is more in the ascendency there - and along with it, an 'export the American tech stack' strategy more suited to the scientific view.

mea culpa/correction: this was written over the summer, when it still appeared to me that the 'race to superintelligence' held sway in Washington DC as well as Silicon Valley. It's become clearer to me since that a many (perhaps indeed a critical mass of) leading policy voices in/advising USG

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i'll write something up when i'm back

So much happening in Beijing these days! Really exciting to see the progress that's happening in these conversations.