Dario #Amodei of #Anthropic says he wants to “pace the frontier” but his post seems calculated to sabotage diplomacy with #China, the only actor whose buy-in he actually needs, using the derogatory abbreviation “CCP” and proposing to try to cripple Chinese #AI: “Pacing within democracies will be limited by the lead that US companies have over authoritarian regimes, chiefly the Chinese Communist Party. If we slow down by more than this amount, then (unpaced) CCP-associated projects will pull ahead, creating significant national security risk. I agree with Secretary Bessent that a Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world. The CCP-associated projects will run the alignment risks that US companies are carefully preventing [...]
“• Do not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and crack down on chip smuggling operations and remote access to data centers outside China. Chips will be the main determinant of China’s AI strength.”