China responded to the AI slowdown calls. "Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance, which serves no one's interest." American CEOs are saying slow down. China is saying keep going. That gap between the two positions is the most important thing happening... in AI right now.show more

Told ya. This is purely politics. Nothing else will make Elon Musk change a tweet argument so fast than Donald J Trump

i think 'slow down' is doing too much work here... is the disagreement about frontier research, or about how models get deployed?

The real challenge may be finding a middle ground between moving fast and managing the risks.

This is like a great conditions building up. Chinese flexing their strength. Won’t let the cartels come up .

this split makes any slowdown deal impossible. us labs can talk pause all they want, if china says full speed ahead everyone just keeps racing anyway

This is getting murkier. Both US and China can't afford to put breaks on AI. I heard there are some nasty things happening in Darknet about AI usage. This is much more than just a danger sign. Someone need to find a solution.

I fully support rapid progress in AI.

Two poles apart is defining always a balanced way. No matter in long time most of the time one side always win but might be that winning proposition is not favouring all the world

I wonder if China is already ahead in this game.

The divergence is also a measurement problem: “slow down” can mean frontier deployment controls, while “keep going” can mean capability investment. Compare concrete thresholds—training scale, eval gates, and incident disclosure—to see whether the gap is policy or rhetoric.