China pushes back on AI 'pacing' calls, fearing entrenchment of US lead, SCMP reports
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-09-15
Per SCMP, after Sam Altman joined Silicon Valley leaders calling for voluntary industry-wide AI "pacing," Chinese researchers and state media pushed back sharply, arguing a slowdown would protect established US incumbents while freezing latecomers out of the market — framing it as a ploy to entrench the US lead.
More from AGI Musings
- Two Years Ago Twitter Seriously Debated If LLMs Could Plan or Do Arithmetic — maksym_andr · 2026-09-15
- Rob Leclerc: Safety Orgs' High p(doom) Means They'll Sandbag and Veto Every Model Release — robleclerc · 2026-09-15
- SF Takes an Abstract Noble-Savage View of Enterprise Workflows, While New Yorkers Feel It Viscerally — willcb · 2026-09-15
- Ten Years Ago Musk, Hassabis, Bostrom and Others Warned About AI Risks on One Panel — iruletheworldmo · 2026-09-15
- Why Couldn't AI Be Conscious? Reddit Thread Challenges Intuition-Based Objections — Successful-Lie1603 · 2026-09-15
- Reddit: Without continuous learning, models can't be called AGI — Monochrome21 · 2026-09-15