Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Call it socialism with Chinese characteristics or communism with Chinese characteristics for how to handle AI disruption and AI Disemployment it would be an ironic, you know under I think this falls under the the category of we the most ironic outcomes ironic outcome tends to be that the one that we live in where China is setting global standards for how to deal with AI disruption for employment and

It's a very strange future that we live in.

I don't buy the premise that China, through internal policies, is somehow hamstringing themselves in a race for AI supremacy against the U.S.

Parenthetically, the race to AI supremacy, I think, is perfectly real.

It's not fictitious.

It is a real arms race.

And it's a real arms race, not just for AI itself, but for what comes after AI.

When we have superintelligence, that's going to unlock so many, I think, transformative scientific innovations and discoveries and inventions.

And that's really what the prize is.

Yeah, we haven't seen anything yet.

That's right.

If there's new physics, for example, I have financial interest in a company, physical superintelligence, that's working on superintelligence for unlocking new physics and new applied physics.

That alone is a prize worth an international arms race over.

And I just to the the claim or the assertion that somehow China, by introducing policies that are notionally worker friendly in terms of AI substitution for labor, is somehow hand stringing themselves.

I think it's preposterous.

There are a variety of other industrialized countries, including Germany, that have policies of favoring small and medium-sized businesses when it comes to automation.

I think China, if anything, this is a way from an internal policy perspective for China to ensure a certain level of human employment while also creating state incentives top-down for creating new types of jobs that are AI-adjacent.

I don't think they're tying themselves up at all.

It's no different in some sense from our government constructing policies with the hyperscalers for requiring that hyperscalers power their or pay their own electricity supply bills.

No different, except it's at the consumer level rather than at the enterprise hyperscaler level.