China’s Jensen Huang Caper

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Before going off half-cocked, we ought to ask how Beijing thinks it benefits. | World News

U.S. intelligence was hardly going to miss Nvidia’s founder and chief cuddling up with a woman secretly connected to Chinese intelligence. Which raises a question: Did China’s government target Jensen Huang for information—or to compromise a technologist closely connected to Donald Trump?

Mr. Trump was reportedly informed of the relationship months ago. He touched on bigger matters Sunday when CBS questioned him about AI leaders who say the technology threatens human survival. “It’s all between us and China,” he said.

In typical Trump fashion, he left unfleshed-out a thought the public would have benefited from having fleshed out.

A large language model tells me I didn’t coin the term “AI Chernobyl” in a May 2023 column. An AI researcher on YouTube used the phrase a few weeks earlier. Harrumph. But now the term has been universally adopted for the presumably looming catastrophic event that will drive U.S. politicians, in panicked fashion, to take a more hands-on approach to AI.

Coming together are many strains of AI paranoia. Jeremie Harris is a physicist, China hawk and national-security consultant. He’s also a doomer, believing superintelligence a near-term competitor with humans for control of our planet. In a podcast with the author Robert Wright, he invokes a Chernobyl-like event that shocks President Trump into believing the U.S. and even himself and his own family are at risk.

Mr. Trump phones China’s Xi Jinping and says, “We’ve got to find a way to stop this.” But Mr. Xi either is not pilled as to the superintelligence threat or believes China’s position to be advantageous. A “trustless” agreement must be forced on China. The U.S. must move quickly to develop a means of external monitoring to make sure China isn’t training dangerous superintelligence. Washington should be willing to threaten severe reprisals if Beijing doesn’t adhere to U.S.-advocated red lines.

You don’t have to buy the whole scenario to agree that what Mr.

Happily, political scientists tell us…

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