This talk of arms race with China is very, very dangerous. We need to start having a more important conversation if people really believe this because, otherwise, why shouldn't China just kinetically strike US infrastructure and vice versa?
If AI is an executioner's blow to your opponent by enabling you to dominate them in terms of hacking, economy, government, politics, etc. kinetic strikes are more than justified. You could destroy most of the US's ability to create AI for decades with Pearl Harbor-esque first strikes.
Do people think countries are just going to roll over and die?
I don't even understand what people think we're racing towards.
What the global masses want are good food, nice houses, fast transportation, TVs and cell phones... Physical comforts.
It doesn't matter what a superintelligence dreams up if you can't physically produce any of it. As the article says, China is the only place that actually has the manufacturing and robotics capability.
In the US we maybe have a hope of seeing more miracle healthcare, marginally more optimized industrial agriculture, and I guess even more lethal military technology. At best it can design all the factories and energy plants we are missing.
And putting all the white collar knowledge workers out of work- what would that accomplish? People aren't ready for the massive social reorganization that this tech would imply. Would it even survive the revolution it causes??
If AI is an executioner's blow to your opponent by enabling you to dominate them in terms of hacking, economy, government, politics, etc. kinetic strikes are more than justified. You could destroy most of the US's ability to create AI for decades with Pearl Harbor-esque first strikes.
Do people think countries are just going to roll over and die?