The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global dominance, writes Dworkesh. We should maintain our lead and use it to dramatically increase investment in technical alignment, he says. The same strategy President Ronald Reagan used to win the First Cold War with the Soviet Union: We win, they lose. A world in which the CCP develops AGI first is a very bad world, but a lot of the harm from China developing AI first comes from the fact they probably will give no consideration to alignment issues.
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