Seeing China Clearly | Trans-Pacific tech watcher @tfa.ng joins
@robertwrighter.bsky.social to take a close look at China—including how the government works (and doesn’t), online censorship, how China sees AI and the chip war, the legacy of the one-child policy, and more.
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I had a predictably illuminating conversation about the prospects for a US-Iran peace deal with Rob Malley, who played a lead role in negotiating the Obama nuclear deal with Iran.
From my piece in the latest @nonzeronews.bsky.social, "Trump's Accidental Triumph in Beijing."
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Is intelligence an absolute good?
@robertwrighter.bsky.social and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social disagree.
Full discussion: youtu.be/KBlZ8AuWU1Q
If tech oligarchs block conventional channels for regulating AI, should they be surprised that some activists go to extremes? That doesn't justify the extremism, but it's worth bearing in mind. My piece in @NonzeroNews.bsky.social: www.nonzero.org/p/why-altman...
Really enjoyed this conversation with @binarybits.bsky.social.
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The atomic age spawned creative thinking about its revolutionary security implications. The age of AI seems to be having roughly the opposite effect. My piece on the foreign policy establishment's big fail.
Chatbots can already help an aspiring bioweapons maker—and pandemics don't respect borders. That's among the reasons that stigmatizing people who pursue US-China dialogue on AI is bad for the US. My @nonzeronews.bsky.social piece:
Trump's all-too-rare cooperative impulses should be encouraged. But when he expresses them, the MSM and the Blob give him negative feedback. My @nonzeronews.bsky.social piece on the US-China summit:
With enemies like this, Skynet doesn't need friends
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Can Trump and Iran Make a Deal? | Rob Malley—a lead negotiator for Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran—and
@robertwrighter.bsky.social discuss what kind of deal between Trump and Iran is conceivable and what kinds of leverage both sides have.
Is the AI Takeoff Starting? | Timothy B. Lee (@binarybits.bsky.social), author of the Understanding AI newsletter and host of the AI Summer podcast, joins @robertwrighter.bsky.social to discuss whether AI is a “normal technology” or something much, much more.
