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Victor Shih

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Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

Now he's a vice premier in charge of cybersecurity.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

So clearly this guy is trusted.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

You know, his preference for AI, AGI, so I tweeted this Davos speech, which you also looked at.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

I think it's very revealing, right?

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

So you look at it, you're like, wow, what's... So what he said was, we need to invest in AI.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

But we need to do it – we can't go all out in investing in it without knowing what the breaks are.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

We have to develop the breaks also at the same time.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

I think that's extremely revealing.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

So, basically, it's very different from the American approach because in America, it's all driven by private sector.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

And, of course, all these – except for one or two companies, everyone just –

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

invest, invest, invest, and try to reach AGI as soon as possible.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

For the Chinese government, they're very afraid that some actor outside, but even inside the party is going to use it as a tool to usurp the power of the party.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

So they want to know that they have a way of stopping everything if it comes to it.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

So for them, developing the brakes is just as important as developing AI itself.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

Thus far, it seems like it's under cybersecurity leading group.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

So Ding Xiuqiang would be in charge of it.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

There won't be a new group.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

I don't think so.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

Because for the party, it's a security aspect of it that's the most important.

Dwarkesh Podcast
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

Yeah.