Andrew Prokop
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first heard Jan 2025
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I'm Andrew Prokop, host of Today Explained for Vox.
Andrew, what is going on in Washington?
Well, there's a lot more noise, and what that noise leads to is currently very unclear.
But suddenly, AI safety has gone from a relatively niche and technical issue to something that is on the minds and on the lips of a whole lot of people, politicians from both sides of the aisle.
So on Monday morning, President Donald Trump truth that
Well, there is a frame...
To view the AI competition as a race, essentially like Cold War dynamics, race to
the nuclear bomb.
In this case, Trump wouldn't frame it like that, but more as we are in a contest with China for who can build the best and smartest and most amazing AI.
Right.
And we need to do everything in our power to win that contest.
Because A, it'll be good for our country and make us very rich.
And B, we don't want China to win because if they do get a much better AI than us, then they could...
have much greater influence and power over the world.
And that would be bad for us.
I think most people do believe that that will ultimately be necessary.
There's a school of thought that says, oh, we could sort of unilaterally pause development and maybe China will be sort of held back by that since they've been sort of –
following on a lot of what we've been doing already.
But I think the more common view is that some sort of international coordination between the U.S.
and China would be necessary and that it's the hardest step of the
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