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The tweet discusses the advantage of American AI labs leading in development due to their ability to warn about risks, contrasting with potential silence from Chinese labs, and raises concerns about unsolved dangers from recursively self-improving AI.

This is why it's a good thing that American labs are in the lead. If Chinese labs were, their employees wouldn't be able to warn us about threats. But Chinese labs will encounter the same threats within a year, in complete silence.
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This is why it’s a good thing that American labs are in the lead. If Chinese labs were, their employees wouldn’t be able to warn us about threats. But Chinese labs will encounter the same threats within a year, in complete silence.

Anna Wang (@a_nnawang): I worked at Google DeepMind and now at Anthropic. This is a common sentiment amongst my peers.

(I write this in personal capacity.)

There is not yet a viable scientific plan to solve risks from recursively self-improving AI. Please look up!

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