US vs. China AI: Is Election Interference Driving a Tech Ban?
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Explore the potential implications of Trump's rumored speech blaming China for US election rigging. We delve into whether this could be the first step towards the US federal government banning Chinese AI models, framing it as a move to protect American frontier AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI.
This discussion covers the concept of a "Great American Firewall" and the hosts debate if such a ban is pure protectionism or a response to alleged Chinese influence operations. The conversation also highlights how many US corporations rely on Chinese open-source models and the recent reciprocal AI export controls initiated by China.
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Transcript
Now, as we are recording this this evening, Trump is about to make a speech where apparently he's going to blame China for rigging US elections. Um, at least that's the the rumor. Now, last week on our show here Zach, you talked about how the US was going to probably start banning access to Chinese AI models. And I'm wondering, is is this talk from from Trump, you know, since we're talking about simulated intelligence, uh, he's he's going to be reading a speech written by somebody else. Um, is this talk by Trump, do you think is this maybe the first move in an effort by the US federal government to start banning Chinese AI models in order to have protectionism for US frontier AI labs like Anthropic and Open AI. Yeah, I mean they're laying down the bricks for the Great American firewall. And uh what better way to say than say, well, they're engaging in election interference. And if we can blame China for election interference, then uh we can start uh blaming narratives that are inconvenient to the system on essentially uh Chinese influence agents, right? And it's a it's, you know, influence is coming ...
