Redwood CEO: Leaked algorithmic secrets alone could wipe out the US AI lead over China
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-11-12
Redwood Research CEO Buck Shlegeris warns the US could lose its entire AI lead over China even without model weights being stolen, if algorithmic secrets keep leaking. He argues the field over-focuses on weight security while AI companies' security is poor, and since Chinese labs have enough compute to match US training runs, stolen algorithms alone could erase the lead. He also discusses using highly capable AI to automate alignment research.
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