Futurism links to the SCMP (which acts under the Chinese Communist Party's censorship regime) which in turn is referencing a CNAS' 'online event' and a 'CNAS report published last week', though there are no links to the online event nor the report.

I couldn't find the online event, but here is the report for those who want to read it: Superpowers and AGI - How U.S.-China Competition Could Be Shaped by the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence

The linked article is quoting Stokes, for example, saying,

"Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,"

and,

"Bombing would cross a major threshold that heretofore has not been crossed in US-China relations."

I can't find these and other quotations from the linked article in the original report (not even the SCMP is quoting these).

In the original report, there is no mention of a "US military strike against China" as the SCMP headline tries to make people believe.

In the original report, words like 'bombing' and 'espionage' - quoted by Futurism - don't even exist.

Though the report discusses the U.S./China rivalry regarding AGI, it does so in a much larger and more diverse frame, including the common U.S./China competition with the Global South and other regions, what supposedly happened if and when any other country develops AGI first, and more things related to this topic. It is by no means a report "U.S. versus China" as the linked article (and the SCMP) makes people believe.

AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky - which is also not mentioned in the SCMP - indeed suggested in 2023 that countries needed to be ready to “destroy a rogue da center by airstrike," but this was not directed specifically to China or any other country. He meant that as a possible (and, for now, theoretical) future measure in case a data center becomes dangerous for humans and humanity at some point in the future.

But you can perfectly combine all these fake quotations and half-truths to create a hopelessly distorted reality. This is pure propaganda aiming to sow division.

Why go all the way to China? Plenty of data centers to bomb right here in the US.

I was also thinking there aren't enough wars

WCGW

Oh, yeah, let's go to war with China, GREAT idea! That won't be bad for the entire fucking world at all!

Oh come on, no one who would consider themselves to be a computer scientist thinks that LLMs will lead to AGI.

Can we stop pretending Obama and his cabinet were the good guts, yet?

I’m going to run with this insane take next time I’m asked if I want one of these apparently legitimate military targets in my backyard

lets use obamas name as a carrot and ai as a stick to get folks onboard with something that is mother trumping stupid.

As much as I am all for the destruction of data centers, can we not find a civil solution like having governments create malware that destroys the contents of the server and then shreds the bytes instead?

This is just the kind of dumb shit I'd expect out of someone who has been highly placed within the US Government.

That's a two way street isn't it? 🤣

So, this is the real reason they are selling the "AGI" bs narrative to regular people. More excuses for wars. As I have been saying....the US should be considered a global threat. Nobody is safe from this warmongering lunatics. If the world won't strike first....they will.

They do know nukes will blow them up as well right?

Neo-Lib DNC continue to enable fascists and push the world into thermonuclear apocalypse.

What, so the us nazis can get there first? Stop dragging it out.

Why not be concerned with the ones at home before starting WW3? Absolutely insane take.

venezuela and greenland didn’t work, americans are jaded about iran, and russia is obviously a non-starter. i think we either start a war with china or do some real left-field strikes on india or some shit.

GOTTA start a war before the election season gets running.

Very progressive

Nutty, if they did that I'd expect China to start funding terror ops in america

former Obama-era national security official Jacob Stokes

Found the mythical centrist DNC want Amekkkunts to vote for.

Aren't we out of bombs?

That is fucking stupid.

I heard somewhere China and Russia have developed EMP tech that could wipe out all our electronics. No idea if that’s real, but we probably shouldn’t piss them off too much

These AI companies really managed to make a whole generation of lead brain boomers to fully believe that AGI is real and we will have Terminator in a couple of years, their marketing teams deserve a raise

Holy mother of psychopath..

i wanna see them try

Tracks for Obama admin

What a fucking cunt

Anyone in position of power who suggests actions that may bring the world to brink of ww3 must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

On another perspective you have to be a complete dumbfuck of an idiot to suggest bombing a country who supplies you a great chunk of your daily and advanced tech components. All because of what? Because Chinese companies were able to make LLMs that prove Western counterparts were just big inflated bubbles? Is that your forecast of achieving AGI? JFC the people running the most powerful country on Earth..

Holy shit, how the fuck does someone say something like that with a straight face?

"Yeah I'm a little concerned about the idea someone might make something I saw about in a movie, lets trigger ww3 because fuck it"

Thats the stupidest idea I’ve heard in a long time.

jesus fuck ww3 christ in a crockpot

Lol, do it. I want to see the US economy crash completely.

sooooo.. this is one of those articles you have to read. the guys is in a think tank where they come up with different ideas. he even talks about the issues. i guess someone heard it and ran with it as a deceleration of sonething we must do

Futurism links to the SCMP (which acts under the Chinese Communist Party's censorship regime) which in turn is referencing a CNAS' 'online event' and a 'CNAS report published last week', though there are no links to the online event nor the report.

I couldn't find the online event, but here is the report for those who want to read it: Superpowers and AGI - How U.S.-China Competition Could Be Shaped by the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence

The linked article is quoting Stokes, for example, saying,

"Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,"

and,

"Bombing would cross a major threshold that heretofore has not been crossed in US-China relations."

I can't find these and other quotations from the linked article in the original report (not even the SCMP is quoting these).

In the original report, there is no mention of a "US military strike against China" as the SCMP headline tries to make people believe.

In the original report, words like 'bombing' and 'espionage' - quoted by Futurism - don't even exist.

Though the report discusses the U.S./China rivalry regarding AGI, it does so in a much larger and more diverse frame, including the common U.S./China competition with the Global South and other regions, what supposedly happened if and when any other country develops AGI first, and more things related to this topic. It is by no means a report "U.S. versus China" as the linked article (and the SCMP) makes people believe.

AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky - which is also not mentioned in the SCMP - indeed suggested in 2023 that countries needed to be ready to “destroy a rogue da center by airstrike," but this was not directed specifically to China or any other country. He meant that as a possible (and, for now, theoretical) future measure in case a data center becomes dangerous for humans and humanity at some point in the future.

But you can perfectly combine all these fake quotations and half-truths to create a hopelessly distorted reality. This is pure propaganda aiming to sow division.

wat

Decrepit war hawk says we should attack more countries! Misunderstands what AGI is, more at 6!

I know, as a species, we're desperately trying to start World War 3 on a bunch of fronts, but this is one of the stupider ones.

We making anti-Obama posts now?

People might be more open to this post if they mentioned his current position at CNAS or even his former position as an Analyst in Institute of Peace, clearly an ill fitting role for the slopper, instead of some shit he did over a decade ago. And, a minor nitpick, he was an advisor for VP Biden (under Obama) and Congresswoman Amy Klobuchar, not Obama specifically.

With that out of the way, fuckin sloppers, man. They actually believe this shit or is Microsoft paying him up the wazoo?

Futurism links to the SCMP (which acts under the Chinese Communist Party's censorship regime) which in turn is referencing a CNAS' 'online event' and a 'CNAS report published last week', though there are no links to the online event nor the report.

I couldn't find the online event, but here is the report for those who want to read it: Superpowers and AGI - How U.S.-China Competition Could Be Shaped by the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence

The linked article is quoting Stokes, for example, saying,

"Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,"

and,

"Bombing would cross a major threshold that heretofore has not been crossed in US-China relations."

I can't find these and other quotations from the linked article in the original report (not even the SCMP is quoting these).

In the original report, there is no mention of a "US military strike against China" as the SCMP headline tries to make people believe.

In the original report, words like 'bombing' and 'espionage' - quoted by Futurism - don't even exist.

Though the report discusses the U.S./China rivalry regarding AGI, it does so in a much larger and more diverse frame, including the common U.S./China competition with the Global South and other regions, what supposedly happened if and when any other country develops AGI first, and more things related to this topic. It is by no means a report "U.S. versus China" as the linked article (and the SCMP) makes people believe.

AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky - which is also not mentioned in the SCMP - indeed suggested in 2023 that countries needed to be ready to “destroy a rogue da center by airstrike," but this was not directed specifically to China or any other country. He meant that as a possible (and, for now, theoretical) future measure in case a data center becomes dangerous for humans and humanity at some point in the future.

But you can perfectly combine all these fake quotations and half-truths to create a hopelessly distorted reality. This is pure propaganda aiming to sow division.