cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51576819
“Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,” Stokes writes. (He’s not the first thinker to suggest bombings to stop powerful AI; in 2023, AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky suggested that countries needed to be ready to “destroy a rogue data center by airstrike.”)
Of course, the China hawk isn’t numb to what such an attack would mean for the world.
“Bombing would cross a major threshold that heretofore has not been crossed in US-China relations,” Stokes continues. “Trying to think through the particulars of that will be especially important, in part because it will help policymakers… start to work backwards based on the unique nature of the technology, in the same way that in a past era, policymakers would learn about nuclear weapons.”
China can and will retaliate. So go for it.
As an American, I’m far more scared of American culture.
I think it’s valid to say the USA is really bad but that China is still worse. China is at the place the USA is heading towards.
One out of thousands of eligible people has a mental opinion! Breaking news! They are rotten to the core.
