Former White House staffer calls for espionage and cyber options as Washington prepares for a potential Chinese breakthrough.

The United States should start preparing for scenarios where extreme measures must be taken to stop China from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to a former White House official, including state-backed espionage and military strikes on Chinese data centres. Jacob Stokes, deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), said at an online event on Thursday that various US agencies, including the Department of Defense…

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  • Ptsf@lemmy.world
    1·
    15 minutes ago

    Imagine a fucking war with China. Might as well feed your kids into the meat grinder yourself if the government is this fucking desperate to do it for you. Has to be some kind of loon among loons making the suggestion.

  • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 hours ago

    People do realise that you won’t achieve AGI no matter how much computing your throw at it? Are they so psychotic that they think it’s a real treat?

    • Ptsf@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 minutes ago

      Can you explain why you hold this viewpoint? From my perspective, all the tools are in place. Self adjusting weights, adaptive transformers, etc to actually achieve agi with enough compute and refinement. I’ll be upfront that I’m only working with large abstract concepts, not the direct math, but I’m genuinely curious what makes you believe it’s outside the scope of the first species to split an atom? Is there some formula or proven constant I’m missing?