Interesting, I hadn’t seen that interview. I stand by the overall claim that AI safety is more prominent in the West than China, though I am glad to see more people in China becoming safety-oriented.
Re the CCP being more redistributionist: that could be the case, but I am also worried that once individuals aren’t economically useful their interests won’t be looked out for as much by the state, unless they stay politically empowered, which requires democracy. I think the CCP would still care enough about its people to distribute AI benefits to them even when the people aren’t useful investments, but I’m unsure. Whereas I think I would be more surprised if e.g. the US let its people be greatly deprived even if they were ~useless deadweights.
Interesting, I hadn’t seen that interview. I stand by the overall claim that AI safety is more prominent in the West than China, though I am glad to see more people in China becoming safety-oriented.
Re the CCP being more redistributionist: that could be the case, but I am also worried that once individuals aren’t economically useful their interests won’t be looked out for as much by the state, unless they stay politically empowered, which requires democracy. I think the CCP would still care enough about its people to distribute AI benefits to them even when the people aren’t useful investments, but I’m unsure. Whereas I think I would be more surprised if e.g. the US let its people be greatly deprived even if they were ~useless deadweights.