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As columnist Dominic Pino observes, politicians can’t actually tell us what this “pause” should entail.
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pause → observe → what
That’s a tell that these pausers are performing for public opinion.
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pausers → ’ → opinion
On this issue at least, President Donald Trump sees the bigger picture.
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Trump → see → picture
He knows that America currently holds the global initiative on AI.
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America → know → AI
He knows that the United States must retain that initiative or suffer its gravest defeat in history.
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States → know → history
Yes, the looming power of AI systems means that safety concerns are significant.
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concerns → loom → systems
Superseding “kill switches” and other safeguards will have to be introduced into AI systems, especially generative AI, so that they cannot act against the Constitution or the people.
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they → supersede → Constitution
That said, it would be extraordinarily dangerous to pause AI development.
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it → say → development
One word explains why.
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word → explain → ?
China is in a century-defining race with the U.S. to lead the world in next-generation technologies such as AI and quantum.
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China → define → AI
If China wins this race, the negative effects for Americans will extend far beyond the economic realm.
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effects → win → realm
China would use its AI dominance to subjugate the Pacific region and its neighbors militarily, and to engage in truly unconstrained espionage against American businesses and individuals.
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China → use → businesses
Does anyone seriously expect that a nation which wages a genocide against its own people would be a beneficent global master of the AI industry?
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which → expect → industry
In turn, the only way to restrain this malevolent ambition is for the U.S. to overmatch Chinese technology with its own.
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U.S. → restrain → own
Indeed, China is already doing everything it can to steal American AI and other proprietary research.
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it → do → AI
It is doing so to bolster its economic, military, and scientific position against the United States.
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It → do → States
President Xi Jinping’s urgency here reflects the Chinese Communist Party’s understanding of what’s at stake in this battle.
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what → reflect → battle
And we can theorize what a CCP victory would entail.
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victory → theorize → what
It would mean the People’s Liberation Army being able to blind U.S. military communications and penetrate American defenses with hyperintelligent missile and drone swarm attacks.
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Army → mean → attacks
It would mean a relentless campaign to find and exploit as-yet-unknown flaws in the software of America’s most valuable companies and most important government agencies.
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It → mean → companies
Befitting both the CCP’s ideology and historic Chinese political-military doctrine, it would mean deception campaigns to influence American public opinion in China’s favor.
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it → befit → favor
It would mean American industry existing under the CCP’s perpetual thumb, imprisoning the risk-taking entrepreneurship and cutting-edge science that have long defined America.
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that → mean → America
China would then establish global marketplace dominance.
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China → establish → dominance
It would mean Beijing being able to demand political fealty from America and the rest of the world and launch devastating cyberattacks absent that fealty.
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Beijing → mean → fealty
It should be obvious, then, that the U.S. must establish AI mastery before entertaining any unilateral “pause” in AI research.
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U.S. → establish → research
To do otherwise is to trust in the morality of the CCP, which is tantamount to bathing in a saltwater crocodile-infested river.
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which → trust → river
Either the U.S. keeps racing toward AI dominance, or American schools start teaching about the Politburo and Standing Committee.
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schools → keep → Politburo
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