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Have any of these AI CEOs, politicians or tech bros that try to rally behind a nationalistic "gotta win the AI race against China" ever explained what is actually consequential about this race in their view for anyone but themselves? Like other than your personal company's outlook, your stock portfolio or your political influence/military usage over what is, best case scenario (being generous), a valuable and useful advanced tool for some types of work... what difference does it make to the average internet user if their AI chat bots or agents are developed in or run on data centers in the US or China?
Or more realistically, if they have the largest market share in the world, because there's no lose state that means that the US AI companies can't still exist... unless the AI companies keep pissing people off enough for the public to actually just shut down every data center.
It seems pretty clear that the only real motivation is an unimpeded return on their massive investments. China having market share in AI applications does not, inherently, threaten anyone's safety any more than if they have a minority share in the market.
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