Alexandr (Alex) Wang

If the US bombs them, that's probably World War III.

It's hard to imagine that not just resulting in massive escalation.

And so you're looking at it, and there's kind of no good options.

So I think it's, I mean, everyone's very focused on it, obviously, but it is like a real powder keg of a... Damn.

...of a region.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I think...

I think if... So let's assume that in the next handful of years, next three, four years, there's an invasion or blockade of Taiwan.

And I think given how important AI is, it's hard for the US to not take any sort of action in that scenario.

And then almost all the actions you would see escalating into...

a major, major conflict.

So... Best case scenario is we deter the invasion or blockade altogether.

And I think, you know...

I think it certainly is in everyone's interest to not get into a large-scale world war that's hugely destructive and kills lots of people.

I think, fundamentally, we should be able to deter that conflict, but that's why all this matters so much.

We need to make sure our AI capabilities as a country are the best in the world.

We need to make sure that our military AI capabilities are the best in the world.

We need to make sure that...

there's clear economic deterrence of this kind of scenario.

We need to be investing in every way to deter this conflict such that where this really will break down is if the CCP calculus diverges from our own.