AI and Authoritarian Control

This is a selection of highlights from episode #193 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war

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Chapters:

• Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)
• How advanced is Chinese AI? (00:00:25)
• Is China catching up to the US and UK? (00:05:14)
• Could China be a source of catastrophic AI risk? (00:07:50)
• AI enabling human rights abuses and undermining democracy (00:13:53)
• China's attempts at indigenising its semiconductor supply chain (00:18:14)
• How the US and UK might coordinate with China (00:20:32)

Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong