Video: Perspectives On The Future Of AI
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This may be relevant to the speakers’ breezy assurances that we the U.S. are ahead in A.I. when the “we” in their mental schema includes, e.g., Google, or all those Chinese citizens at work in American companies and universities that the speakers believe are a good thing.
This is why you don’t want tech guys making national policies. The idea that placing US technological strength in the hands of foreign nationals just because they haven’t return to their homeland is stupid.
If anything, all this has done is convinced me we need more nationalism in the world, and more working as allies and trade partners, than what’s happening now.
Why would China allow a foreign platform be their dominant platform? Idiots.