Last month, AI CEO Alexandr Wang posted a full ad in the Washington Post, telling President Trump, “The United States must win the AI war. ”
The statement sparked mixed reactions, as Wang saw during his appearance on Sunday on Qatar’s online opening night. When King’s interviewer Felix Salmon of Axios surveyed the room and asked how many people agreed with the view, he only counted two hands. When he asked how many people in the room disagreed, Salmon pointed out that an “overwhelming” hand increased.
Therefore, Salmon asked the king to defend his opinion. “AI will fundamentally change the nature of national security,” Wang explained. He noted that he grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, “the birthplace of the atomic bomb”, both of his parents were Physicist working in the national laboratory.
Wang said he believes this is a competition between the United States and China. He argues that AI will enable China to “surpass” the military power of “Western powers”, which is what prompts full-page advertising.
Wang is echoing more and more languages, increasingly from defense technology startups and VCs. They are promoting more autonomy to use AI weapons and more AI weapons. them Point to China, assuming China releases completely autonomous AI weapons, while the United States requires human decision makers to gradually slow down in the cycle before firing.
In addition to the hypothetical weapons of another country, Wang also tried to choose between China and the United States between the baseline LLM model. He believes that it will also be a two-match, rather than mentioning other players such as France’s Mistral. He believes that the American model bakes in freedom of speech, and the Chinese model reflects the views of communist society.
Indeed, researchers found that many popular Chinese LLM models incorporated their government censorship. About the backdoor of the Chinese government Data collection will also plague Chinese models.
Wang’s concerns about the government’s impact in AI seem particularly timely, as his speech coincides with the scale of announcing a deal with the Qatar government. Announced on Sunday The ratio mentioned Help Qatar build 50 AI-powered government applications, from education to healthcare.
Scale is mainly used Contract staffusually manually help train models from overseas in the United States. It works with Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta (most major base models in the United States). It also offers other products such as AI data engines and AI applications designed for the defense industry.
Open parent-born languages may work with their Department of Defense customers to provide a good scale for AI. However, the online summit speech also showed how many people seem to be equally uncomfortable with those with AI superpowers.
