I think answering the question of “Who can be included within political life?” is quite important to answer before deciding on whether you prefer China or not. We may very well get an ASI alligned to the interests of the nation which created it, to the detriment of others.
China is inherently a nation of Chinese people, and nominally a nation for the various minorities that are already there. The government represents the interests of this in-group, and almost never lets anyone else in. It’s essentially impossible to become a Chinese citizen for everyone but a few Chinese diaspora.
The US is nominally a European-descended nation, but is essentially universal in who can be an American and who is allowed to participate in political life. Nearly a million people are naturalized every year, and many more people with immigrant parents are born Americans. These immigrants come from every part of the planet.
Despite the xenophobic rhetoric and immigration bans that have been popular recently in the US, these are the result of immigration policy being so expansive in how many people are allowed into the country, that it changes the ethnic and religious makeup of entire cities. This indicates to me that the U.S. is clearly a nation that is willing to expand who it considers part of the nation, even if there’s pushback when this happens rapidly. In China you won’t see much anti-immigrant sentiment because they don’t allow many immigrants at all. The few who are conditionally allowed to live in China over the long term have no path to citizenship.
That’s all to say that a Chinese ASI risks being an ASI working for the interests of the Chinese people, whereas an American ASI seems like it would at least conceptually understand that everyone besides Americans aren’t completely excluded from the possibility of being part of the nation. If an ASI pursues the national interest, I’d rather it be a nation that is not exclusive to a single ethnic group to the detriment of everyone else.
If you’re an American or Chinese I think the answer is obvious. If you’re neither I think preferring American ASI makes more sense.
I think answering the question of “Who can be included within political life?” is quite important to answer before deciding on whether you prefer China or not. We may very well get an ASI alligned to the interests of the nation which created it, to the detriment of others.
China is inherently a nation of Chinese people, and nominally a nation for the various minorities that are already there. The government represents the interests of this in-group, and almost never lets anyone else in. It’s essentially impossible to become a Chinese citizen for everyone but a few Chinese diaspora.
The US is nominally a European-descended nation, but is essentially universal in who can be an American and who is allowed to participate in political life. Nearly a million people are naturalized every year, and many more people with immigrant parents are born Americans. These immigrants come from every part of the planet.
Despite the xenophobic rhetoric and immigration bans that have been popular recently in the US, these are the result of immigration policy being so expansive in how many people are allowed into the country, that it changes the ethnic and religious makeup of entire cities. This indicates to me that the U.S. is clearly a nation that is willing to expand who it considers part of the nation, even if there’s pushback when this happens rapidly. In China you won’t see much anti-immigrant sentiment because they don’t allow many immigrants at all. The few who are conditionally allowed to live in China over the long term have no path to citizenship.
That’s all to say that a Chinese ASI risks being an ASI working for the interests of the Chinese people, whereas an American ASI seems like it would at least conceptually understand that everyone besides Americans aren’t completely excluded from the possibility of being part of the nation. If an ASI pursues the national interest, I’d rather it be a nation that is not exclusive to a single ethnic group to the detriment of everyone else.
If you’re an American or Chinese I think the answer is obvious. If you’re neither I think preferring American ASI makes more sense.