Why China Is No Worried About AI
Because the state in in control, and can pull the plug anytime it wants.
“They can immediately cut off the grid of the entire city. They can go to different people to take away their phones. They have an intense amount of power in the physical world,” said Afra Wang, a Silicon Valley-based tech writer focusing on A.I. and technology in China.
“Given this amount of control over its people,” she said, how does one convince the party “that something like A.I. that lives on a computer is scary?”
“They can immediately cut off the grid of the entire city. They can go to different people to take away their phones. They have an intense amount of power in the physical world,” said Afra Wang, a Silicon Valley-based tech writer focusing on A.I. and technology in China.
“Given this amount of control over its people,” she said, how does one convince the party “that something like A.I. that lives on a computer is scary?”



