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One probable outcome of an openweight model dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes rather than a market product. AI is a public good, which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of digital public infrastructure.

Diet TBPN
1w ago

The more skeptical folks on the timeline are pointing to uh you know ideas such as uh maybe the compute was smuggled in to China against chip controls. Maybe the data was excfiltrated from frontier lab APIs routed through wrapper companies. Maybe this is a distillation attack. Um the open-source strategy is a deliberate attempt to destroy American companies. It's geopolitical warfare. It's the AI cold war.

1w ago

Another way to look at this is that Anthropic has just been very, very successful in making people very, very concerned about advanced AI. Two or three weeks ago, Anthropic actually called for a pause in development of advanced AI models because they were becoming so powerful. So, you know, there's also sort of this this criticism of Anthropic that, "Look, you've been asking for this regulation."

1mo ago
The Business of Tech
AI vs public sector jobs

Brandon argues, we're framing this moment the wrong way as a blunt job cuts exercise, rather than a once in a generation chance to improve citizen services, grow new export businesses out of public sector expertise, and build a proper New Zealand digital service to set standards and avoid another decade of technical debt.

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