FAI @efarrellgregory breaks down China's new AI export controls: “The Chinese Ministry of Commerce put together this long list of a range of different AI technologies, well beyond models, some hardware stuff, some infrastructure stuff. It’s basically a tool that could allow them to halt the export of certain AI technology abroad." "Serving a model on foreign servers, exporting weights, could all count as exports. There’s nothing immediate. It’s in the notice and comment period until mid-November." "The Chinese party has a lot of latitude, in non-public ways, to correct how the models are being used. You’ve seen the cyberspace admin in China issue specific corrections to specific companies for specific actions." "The default is default approval for models. There’s no kind of ban right now. The fact that it’s export controls indicates more of a concern about hosting models abroad, about foreign usage, more so than what they’re doing domestically." @JoinFAI

FAI @efarrellgregory argues the Bay Area's rationalist worldview on AI is a historical accident that China doesn't share: "I don’t think people in San Francisco appreciate how contingent and how distinct the language they’re using, the expectations they have, is from what’s going on in China." "A lot of American expectations, which end up shaping the behavior of people at labs, perhaps people in government, are highly contingent on different historical things here." "The prevalence of rationalism in the Bay Area, that’s not a given thing. That way of thinking ends up influencing a lot of people at labs, and there’s not that same tradition of rationalism within China." "I don’t think they’re talking too much about paperclip maxing in China. There is a shared vocabulary that is very easy to reference over here that is just not shared in China." @JoinFAI