China’s tech industry recently gave the U.S. tech industry — and along with it, the stock market — a rude shock when it unveiled DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence model…
The real lesson of DeepSeek is that America’s approach to A.I. safety and regulations — the concerns espoused by both the Biden and Trump administrations, as well as by many A.I. companies — was largely nonsense…a self-serving fiction, foisted on out-of-touch leaders by an industry that wanted the government to kneecap its competitors.
Instead of a futile effort to keep this genie bottled up, the government and the industry should be preparing our society for the sweeping changes that are soon to come.
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And instead of fantasizing about how some future rogue A.I. could attack us, it’s time to start thinking clearly about how corporations and governments could use the A.I. that’s available right now to entrench their dominance…
It is time, too, to admit that the interests of a few large, multinational companies aren’t good proxies for the interests of the people facing such a monumental transformation.
