I mostly put this question through the same filter I do the question of Chinese vs. US hegemony/empire. China has a long history of empire and knows how to do it well. The political bureaucracy in China is well developed for preserving both itself and the empire (even within changes at the top/changes of dynasty). Culturally and socially the population seems to be well acclimated to being ruled rather than seeing government as the servant of the people (which I not quite the same as saying they are resigned to abusive totalitarianism, the empire has to be providing something that amounts to public good and peace but seem more tolerant of the means applied than western cultures).
The US on the other hand pretty much sucks at empire and lacks a well functioning and well developed bureaucracy for supporting empire.
So I think perhaps one might need to ask what the specific risk one is most concerned about. China probably produces an AI that serves the Party and Empire and so perhaps is a bit more corrigible and won’t decide to kill everyone. But if you’re concerned about what those in control of an AGI/ASI might do with it China might be a bigger risk than the US. With the US you probably have greater risks from the AI wanting to kill everyone or simply doing that without caring but likely have more controls on what the AI will allow its “owners” to do with it.
I mostly put this question through the same filter I do the question of Chinese vs. US hegemony/empire. China has a long history of empire and knows how to do it well. The political bureaucracy in China is well developed for preserving both itself and the empire (even within changes at the top/changes of dynasty). Culturally and socially the population seems to be well acclimated to being ruled rather than seeing government as the servant of the people (which I not quite the same as saying they are resigned to abusive totalitarianism, the empire has to be providing something that amounts to public good and peace but seem more tolerant of the means applied than western cultures).
The US on the other hand pretty much sucks at empire and lacks a well functioning and well developed bureaucracy for supporting empire.
So I think perhaps one might need to ask what the specific risk one is most concerned about. China probably produces an AI that serves the Party and Empire and so perhaps is a bit more corrigible and won’t decide to kill everyone. But if you’re concerned about what those in control of an AGI/ASI might do with it China might be a bigger risk than the US. With the US you probably have greater risks from the AI wanting to kill everyone or simply doing that without caring but likely have more controls on what the AI will allow its “owners” to do with it.