This is the test: should America pause if China does not? If the answer is yes, you are not an AI safety advocate—you are arguing for unilateral disarmament. Build first. Negotiate second. That is how serious nations survive. We did not stop the Manhattan Project to ask Tokyo or Moscow for permission. We built the bomb, held the cards, and then shaped the world. AI is the same class of strategic power. Data centers are not local zoning nuisances. They are national security infrastructure. Anyone choking them off is helping Beijing, knowingly or not. America must build. Now.
and don't even pretend that every single one of your readers doesn't do this in their head already. Chinese commitee for the Liberation of Polar opposites for the Freedom of Polar bears Commitee commisariat.
has anyone ever told you how incredibly annoying and tedious acronyms are. I have a suggestion. GG, BG, UI, NG. good guy, bad guy, usefull idiot, neutral guy. there. simplify. I love your writing but I'm just too tired to memorize all the crappy names for all the crappy people to even finish your probably stellar article. maybe use CA. Chinese assholes.
What concerns me is that the AI data centers pull their own weight.
Trump and his people mention energy usage but I don't see any acknowledgment of water usage. Not sure if what Trump says about the energy provides enough protection to nearby residents.
After experiencing having to continually subsidize, through my electric payments, all sorts of pie-in-the-sky solar/wind type projects, I don't think it's fair for residents to subsidize the AI centers' energy/water usage. I'm not convinced that these companies that are setting up in small towns can be trusted to not pawn off these costs onto residents. Also, there should be major consideration of what their presence does to the current infrastructure.
Other than satisfying these concerns, and assuming noise and pollution abatement are covered, I'm all for the US jumping in.
Does the influence operation against AI data centers so far include anything to impede the building of orbital AI data centers like Blue Origin plans to build?
We just learned of an unforeseen consequence of the AI model “Mythos”, which was discovered to have the ability to hack any and every computer system in existence. They’ve apparently brought it back into the lab while they try to figure out what to do with it upon making that discovery. That’s kinda scary - and real.
Also, chat bots who influence kids with dangerous mal-information is also a real danger.
Putting some kind of brakes or limits to all the current tinkering with this new technology does not sound to me like a bad idea as Its potentials for both good and evil are evidently unknowable, and cast a wide net.
Being all excited about the new “shiny thing” when it comes to AI is fraught with unintended consequences, and some kind of restraints on those tinkerers seem more than reasonable to me.
Because once Pandora is released from the box there will be no going back.
I’m sympathetic to the well-articulated case made here, particularly with respect to having AI regulated at the federal level rather than state by state. In addition, even if China agrees to some sort of AI moratorium, how do you enforce compliance in an opaque system effectively ruled by one person? Think Iran, North Korea, the USSR. Good luck with that.
I would point out the flaw in the Manhattan Project analogy, however. With the Manhattan Project, there was a concrete endpoint, the development of a nuclear weapon. With AI, there is no such endpoint. Iterations, refinements and advances will continue for as far as any of us can imagine. Once the race begins, and it has begun, it will continue indefinitely. That’s what makes some process for transparency and accountability so important. If the same level of secrecy that surrounded the Manhattan Project is allowed with AI, we will have bequeathed control of our country to a handful of scientific, political and intelligence elites. We hope they will be Jimmy Stewart/Gregory Peck types…but what if they are Fauci/Brennan/Clapper types?
Sea Sentry, the Trump administration is aware of the dangers and blocked Ai military contractor Anthropic because they would not let the Pentagon control the use of their Ai. It is a very serious issue that the president would not be able to ultimately decide how Ai would be applied as a weapon. A CA judge stopped the administration. This will have to be hashed out in courts. I believe we are still awaiting the results of the Manhattan Project as we try to manage Iran’s ambitions for nuclear weapons. Pandora’s box was not closed after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is intelligence that wins over brute force, China has brute force. We need to harness the powers that come from Ai accumulating intelligence. If we aren’t able to use Ai, we will lose the ability to have information necessary to protect ourselves.
Correct cA. That Anthropic case is crazy! Can you imagine a military sub saying… “uh, we don’t authorize you to use our product in this way.” SAY WHAT? Now the lawyers will outrank the generals if that holds.
I think China has great intelligence and brute force. More than that, they have a burning ambition to be on top after the humiliations of the last century. They are a worthy adversary.
President Trump and Senator Marsha Blackburn I trust you to take care of this. I am of the opinion anymore, that we really don't have enough intelligent, trustworthy people. I just want to walk away from about 98% of you. What a sad sad commentary. I understand the Macro of this but I do not have any Micro experience for this. I just want the future of my grandchildren protected. Thank you
This is an important read and the bottom line is this -- China will do anything -- including erecting a US domestic opposition to AI -- to degrade the American AI effort and to provide space for China to leapfrog the American advantage.
This is the test: should America pause if China does not? If the answer is yes, you are not an AI safety advocate—you are arguing for unilateral disarmament. Build first. Negotiate second. That is how serious nations survive. We did not stop the Manhattan Project to ask Tokyo or Moscow for permission. We built the bomb, held the cards, and then shaped the world. AI is the same class of strategic power. Data centers are not local zoning nuisances. They are national security infrastructure. Anyone choking them off is helping Beijing, knowingly or not. America must build. Now.
feel free to repost. fftr
and don't even pretend that every single one of your readers doesn't do this in their head already. Chinese commitee for the Liberation of Polar opposites for the Freedom of Polar bears Commitee commisariat.
has anyone ever told you how incredibly annoying and tedious acronyms are. I have a suggestion. GG, BG, UI, NG. good guy, bad guy, usefull idiot, neutral guy. there. simplify. I love your writing but I'm just too tired to memorize all the crappy names for all the crappy people to even finish your probably stellar article. maybe use CA. Chinese assholes.
What concerns me is that the AI data centers pull their own weight.
Trump and his people mention energy usage but I don't see any acknowledgment of water usage. Not sure if what Trump says about the energy provides enough protection to nearby residents.
After experiencing having to continually subsidize, through my electric payments, all sorts of pie-in-the-sky solar/wind type projects, I don't think it's fair for residents to subsidize the AI centers' energy/water usage. I'm not convinced that these companies that are setting up in small towns can be trusted to not pawn off these costs onto residents. Also, there should be major consideration of what their presence does to the current infrastructure.
Other than satisfying these concerns, and assuming noise and pollution abatement are covered, I'm all for the US jumping in.
Does the influence operation against AI data centers so far include anything to impede the building of orbital AI data centers like Blue Origin plans to build?
We just learned of an unforeseen consequence of the AI model “Mythos”, which was discovered to have the ability to hack any and every computer system in existence. They’ve apparently brought it back into the lab while they try to figure out what to do with it upon making that discovery. That’s kinda scary - and real.
Also, chat bots who influence kids with dangerous mal-information is also a real danger.
Putting some kind of brakes or limits to all the current tinkering with this new technology does not sound to me like a bad idea as Its potentials for both good and evil are evidently unknowable, and cast a wide net.
Being all excited about the new “shiny thing” when it comes to AI is fraught with unintended consequences, and some kind of restraints on those tinkerers seem more than reasonable to me.
Because once Pandora is released from the box there will be no going back.
I’m sympathetic to the well-articulated case made here, particularly with respect to having AI regulated at the federal level rather than state by state. In addition, even if China agrees to some sort of AI moratorium, how do you enforce compliance in an opaque system effectively ruled by one person? Think Iran, North Korea, the USSR. Good luck with that.
I would point out the flaw in the Manhattan Project analogy, however. With the Manhattan Project, there was a concrete endpoint, the development of a nuclear weapon. With AI, there is no such endpoint. Iterations, refinements and advances will continue for as far as any of us can imagine. Once the race begins, and it has begun, it will continue indefinitely. That’s what makes some process for transparency and accountability so important. If the same level of secrecy that surrounded the Manhattan Project is allowed with AI, we will have bequeathed control of our country to a handful of scientific, political and intelligence elites. We hope they will be Jimmy Stewart/Gregory Peck types…but what if they are Fauci/Brennan/Clapper types?
Sea Sentry, the Trump administration is aware of the dangers and blocked Ai military contractor Anthropic because they would not let the Pentagon control the use of their Ai. It is a very serious issue that the president would not be able to ultimately decide how Ai would be applied as a weapon. A CA judge stopped the administration. This will have to be hashed out in courts. I believe we are still awaiting the results of the Manhattan Project as we try to manage Iran’s ambitions for nuclear weapons. Pandora’s box was not closed after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is intelligence that wins over brute force, China has brute force. We need to harness the powers that come from Ai accumulating intelligence. If we aren’t able to use Ai, we will lose the ability to have information necessary to protect ourselves.
Correct cA. That Anthropic case is crazy! Can you imagine a military sub saying… “uh, we don’t authorize you to use our product in this way.” SAY WHAT? Now the lawyers will outrank the generals if that holds.
I think China has great intelligence and brute force. More than that, they have a burning ambition to be on top after the humiliations of the last century. They are a worthy adversary.
Spot on! The CCP steals all our ideas too. We need the leverage of Ai to keep them in line.
Totally agree. It’s a bi-polar world. Russia is no longer a first tier player. And the AIgame is on. God help us all.
President Trump and Senator Marsha Blackburn I trust you to take care of this. I am of the opinion anymore, that we really don't have enough intelligent, trustworthy people. I just want to walk away from about 98% of you. What a sad sad commentary. I understand the Macro of this but I do not have any Micro experience for this. I just want the future of my grandchildren protected. Thank you
No such animal as NGO
All tied to the government.
Great article, but it raises questions.
1) What are the benefits to China of “winning” an AI race? It is not obvious that there are any.
2) Even if the U.S. “wins”, might we still face a ‘Colossus Forbin Project’ scenario in which we still lose?
Restacked with your comment. 👏👏
This is an important read and the bottom line is this -- China will do anything -- including erecting a US domestic opposition to AI -- to degrade the American AI effort and to provide space for China to leapfrog the American advantage.
Read this and ponder the danger.