Alexandr (Alex) Wang

So yeah, right now we're definitely, US and China, we're definitely in an all-out race dynamic.

And we're gonna race, and I think this is correct, we're gonna race to build the best AI systems.

They're gonna race to build the best AI systems.

And we're both all in on this approach, and we're both all in on racing towards building the most advanced AI capabilities, the largest data centers, the largest capacity, et cetera, et cetera.

The...

And this is, if you recall, kind of how nuclear was.

In nuclear war, as well as application of nuclear towards power production, it was kind of all systems go, like everyone racing towards building capacity, building capability.

And then...

Chernobyl and Three Mile Island happened, and it creates large-scale consternation around the technology and the risks of those technologies.

And there were a bunch of international treaties, and there's a large international response towards coordinating on nuclear technology.

All said and done, if you look at nuclear, that set our country back, set many countries back, many generations in terms of power generation.

But what it took was effectively these small-scale disasters to take place that effectively were the forcing function for international cooperation.

You can imagine a scenario with AI where,

because of all the things that we've been talking about, there's some scenario where maybe some terrorist group or some non-state actor or some, you know, North Korea or whomever, somebody decides to use it for, in a particularly adversarial or, you know, inhumane way and create, and that disaster has some,

large-scale fallout.

So you take out power in one of the largest cities in the world and tons of people die.

Or there's some pathogen that gets released and tens of millions of people die.

Or one of these things happens that causes the international community and everyone in the world to realize

oh, shoot, we have to be coordinating on this.

And we should be collaborating for AI to improve our societies and improve our economies and improve the lives of our people.