It’s disappointing because China’s high degree of centralization and disregard for privacy, despite all its drawbacks, would at least offer some major advantages in combating AI risk. But from the wording of this document I don’t get the sense that China is seriously considering AI risk as a threat to its national security.
A serious attempt would look more like “put in place a review structure that identifies and freezes all AI research publications which have potentially serious implications with regard to AI risk and turn it into a state secret if necessary”.
The fact that the governments of major countries are starting to address AI X-risk—is both joyous and frightening
As far as I can tell, this is simply not true—this is not what it looks like for a government to be genuinely concerned with a problem, even if it’s just a small bit of concern. This is not how things in China gets done. If you’ve delved into Chinese bureaucratic texts before, this is what their version of politically correct, hollow fluff piece looks like.
It’s disappointing because China’s high degree of centralization and disregard for privacy, despite all its drawbacks, would at least offer some major advantages in combating AI risk. But from the wording of this document I don’t get the sense that China is seriously considering AI risk as a threat to its national security.
A serious attempt would look more like “put in place a review structure that identifies and freezes all AI research publications which have potentially serious implications with regard to AI risk and turn it into a state secret if necessary”.
As far as I can tell, this is simply not true—this is not what it looks like for a government to be genuinely concerned with a problem, even if it’s just a small bit of concern. This is not how things in China gets done. If you’ve delved into Chinese bureaucratic texts before, this is what their version of politically correct, hollow fluff piece looks like.