[protocolture]

>American employees refuse to build this, but China's don't.

How about you articulate the threat from an AI powered China to people outside of AI powered China and discuss potential methods to counter that, instead of insisting capabilities be developed just in case.

>is the US the bad guy

Yes

>I'm trying to ask how to balance personal anti war sentiments with the realities of the world

Insist on open information, never surrender consent willingly and demand justification for everything. As always.

[boxedemp]

The threat seems straightforward to me; information warfare.

[wbobeirne]

Then the follow up question, how do you combat that? Not likely through developing similar technology.

[pjc50]

The US is a major exporter of that. Including Google itself via the YouTube recommendations algorithm.

[protocolture]

How has the threat model changed?

Keep your shit patched. You dont need LLM targeting of Drone based weapons to patch your servers.

[pjjpo]

There is no bad guy in geopolitics, just the other guy.

[protocolture]

"geopolitics" are an abstraction that tries to pave over guilt. But Abstractions are only useful if they provide some benefit. Geopolitics provide no benefit when assigning guilt so its easily ignored.

[remarkEon]

I think you've missed the point.

PRC isn't going to do any of the things you are asking for, and no one expects them to. The threat of an AI powered China is really obvious to me, but apparently the idea of "IP theft and industrial sabotage, but at scale with AI agents instead of human meat sacks" is hard to clearly articulate.

One method, beyond AI powered kill chains, to counter an AI powered China is of course strategic weapons.

[protocolture]

I think you missed the point.

I didn't ask China for anything.