> We should put in place laws and regulations, technological monitoring, early warning and emergency response systems in order to strengthen the line of security, prevent abuses and malicious use, and ensure that AI is always under human control. In the meantime, we should jointly oppose overstretching the national security concept in the field of AI and placing one country’s security over that of others.
There was a blog post by a state-linked broadcaster cited in the NYT piece:
> “China supports openness, but this does not mean it advocates for the unconditional proliferation of all capabilities,” the blog said.
The article also quoted an American journalist:
> “If these models do reach those dangerous capabilities, they are not going to let it be a free-for-all in terms of releasing them," Mr. Sheehan said.
But a distinction has to be drawn between real dangers (which many people believe LLMs have not actually shown, to date) versus "dangers" hyped up marketing purposes or domestic regulatory-capture motives. Presumably the Chinese government is less interested in the latter.
It is just a question of being unaffected by the motives of the speakers, which is what adults learn to do.
The person I am replying to actually believes that Xi actually spoke of "open weights", for example. This is the AI information space we live in.
But the speech doesn't say that? I'm looking at the full text. For example:
> We should take seriously the various types of inherent and secondary risks that AI may trigger.
The risk portion of the speech is focused more on application-level risks than model capabilities. Which is a much more sensible regulatory framing than what Silicon Valley has proposed.