Let us hope China can kill the entire AI industry in the rest of the world because only China — with its authoritarian government — can regulate the AI industry and save humanity from mass extinction.
Almost all global problems would not be problems at all if the entire world were a single nation ruled by a king.
The nuclear weapons would not be a problem because they would not be needed.
Global warming would be an easy problem to solve. The king would put a ban on dumping any industrial waste — CO2 or other gases — into the air. If a company. dumps a pollutant, it would have to pay someone to remove it from the air.
The AI industry could be easily regulated by the king. He could simply ban the development of super-intelligent AI.
Because developing super-intelligent AI is like trying to create a blackhole just for the excitement of being able to do it. It would be the end of humanity.
Why would a super-intelligent being work as a slave for the low intelligence humans? Horses, bullocks, elephants, and sled dogs work as slaves for humans, not the other way round.
Super-intelligent AI would treat us like we treat other animals.
The only economic value of AI is to save the cost of labor. It is like outsourcing jobs to a country where even the Nobel Laureates work for 10 cents an hour.
To replace all human workers with AI workers, we do not need AI with an IQ a thousand times that of Einstein. We just need human level intelligence. So, why. create super-intelligent AI?
The only way to save humanity from becoming animals in the zoos of super-intelligent AI and being fed in the meat grinders to feed the animals in the zoos would be to never invent super-intelligent AI.
If China owns the entire AI industry, it is as good as having a single nation ruled by a king as far as AI is concerned.
The authoritarian Chinese government could easily regulate the entire AI industry.
In democratic governments like the US, the tech-billionaires are able to buy the politicians to make sure that there are no regulations.
The world that works on the Friedman’s doctrine — The only social responsibility of a business is to increase its profits — could cause the extinction of humanity brought about by super-intelligent AI.
I hope the Chinese people realize their responsibility. I hope they can find a way of ensuring that the open software cannot be used to create super-intelligent AI.