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Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World
Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.
Speaking after he attended one such confab, Paul Triolo, a partner at the advisory firm DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, told WIRED that the discussions had been productive, despite the noticeable absence of American leadership. Because the US and China are developing frontier AI models “trained on the same architecture and using the same methods of scaling laws, the types of societal impact and the risks they pose are very, very similar,” says Tse. I don’t know how effective China’s charm offensive will be in the end, but the global retreat of the US does feel like a once-in-a-century opportunity for Beijing to spread its influence, especially at a moment when every country is looking for role models to help them make sense of AI risks and the best ways to manage them.
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