Reading this has been an absolute fever dream. That’s not something that happens when it’s mostly or totally inaccurate, like various clickbait articles from major news outlets covering AI safety.
One thing it seems to get wrong is the typical libertarian impulse to overestimate the sovereignty of major tech companies. In the business world, they are clearly the big fish, but in the international world, it’s pretty clear that their cybersecurity departments are heavily dependent on logistical/counterintelligence support from various military and intelligence agencies. Corporations might be fine at honeypots, but they aren’t well known for being good at procuring agents willing to spend years risking their lives by operating behind enemy lines.
There are similar and even stronger counterparts in Chinese tech companies. Both sides of the Pacific have a pretty centralized and consistent obsession with minimizing the risk of being weaker on AI, starting 2018 at the latest (see page 10).
Reading this has been an absolute fever dream. That’s not something that happens when it’s mostly or totally inaccurate, like various clickbait articles from major news outlets covering AI safety.
One thing it seems to get wrong is the typical libertarian impulse to overestimate the sovereignty of major tech companies. In the business world, they are clearly the big fish, but in the international world, it’s pretty clear that their cybersecurity departments are heavily dependent on logistical/counterintelligence support from various military and intelligence agencies. Corporations might be fine at honeypots, but they aren’t well known for being good at procuring agents willing to spend years risking their lives by operating behind enemy lines.
There are similar and even stronger counterparts in Chinese tech companies. Both sides of the Pacific have a pretty centralized and consistent obsession with minimizing the risk of being weaker on AI, starting 2018 at the latest (see page 10).