Real danger that US slows AI enough to fall behind China, losing control over societal outcomes.

Real danger that US slows AI enough to fall behind China, losing control over societal outcomes. | I do think there's real danger along these lines of attempting to pause it and maybe not actually pausing it but slowing it down down enough in the US that uh we just become far enough behind China that it's a real problem or like we're whatever society you know that Xi Jinping thinks we should be.

I do think there's real danger along these lines of attempting to pause it and maybe not actually pausing it but slowing it down down enough in the US that uh we just become far enough behind China that it's a real problem or like we're whatever society you know that Xi Jinping thinks we should be.

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