Browsing: hope is scant that the perils and potential of AGI will suddenly bring the two governments together any more than will climate change or pandemic research.

     Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times came away from a China trip convinced that cooperation to regulate and contain artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the single most urgent, and most neglected, issue in US-China relations. While “fully aware of how absurd it can sound calling on the two of them to trust each other to collaborate,” collaboration is essential “to create a global architecture of trust and governance over these emerging superintelligent computers.” Otherwise, they and the robots they create will surpass us, with unpredictable consequences in trade, warfare, labor, and much else.