Why China Is Baffled by America’s AI Race | Yi-Ling Liu
Silicon Valley frames AI as a race against China to reach AGI. In China, almost nobody thinks that way.
Journalist Yi-Ling Liu, author of The Wall Dancers and journalist in residence at the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, joined me on Forecast 2050 to explain how China actually sees AI, the “permanent underclass” that predates automation, demographic collapse and the Chinese silver economy, and the Christian origins of the transhumanist movement.
Extended Show Notes: https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/why-is-silicon-valley-obsessed-with
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:58 Superintelligence Is Not…
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