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                    "While American tech billionaires fret over the capabilities of Chinese AI, one national security advisor has a brilliant idea to flatten the competition: simply bomb their data centers to smithereens.\n\n\n\nIn a new report titled \u201cSuperpowers and AGI,\u201d former Obama-era national security official Jacob Stokes calls for United States to begin preparing readiness drills in response to Chinese AI development \u2014 up to and including military strikes on the nation\u2019s data centers, the South China Morning Post reported.\n\n\n\nAGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to the theoretical point at which an AI model achieves human, or superhuman, levels of reasoning and intelligence. Though the science is still out on whether such a system is even possible, Stokes\u2019 report begins from the assumption that AGI is inevitable, and that if the US can\u2019t get to it first, its military needs to prepare to take drastic action.\n\n\n\nReferring to the US as a hypothetical \u201claggard state\u201d behind China\u2019s achievement of AGI, Stokes \u2014 now the deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program\u00a0at the Center for a New American Security, a prominent DC think tank \u2014 writes that the country could \u201ctry to sabotage the leading state\u2019s AGI systems, either through physical infiltration or offensive cyber operations; that is, cyberattack.\u201d\n\n\n\n\u201cCyberattacks to sabotage AGI might not provoke large-scale retaliation,\u201d Stokes considers, given that \u201ccyberattacks are already to some extent considered normal state behavior below [the] threshold of war.\u201d\n\n\n\nBut waging an unprecedented cyberwar is just one of many scenarios he outlines. As Stokes observes, AI doesn\u2019t just live online; it also requires immense computing power from physical facilities to run.\n\n\n\n\u201cThe final option,\u201d therefore, \u201cwould be the most dangerous and carry the most escalation risk: kinetic attacks, meaning destroying things with missiles and bombs.\u201d\n\n\n\n\u201cData centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,\u201d Stokes writes. (He\u2019s not the first thinker to suggest bombings to stop powerful AI; in 2023, AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky suggested that countries needed to be ready to \u201cdestroy a rogue data center by airstrike.\u201d)\n\n\n\nOf course, the China hawk isn\u2019t numb to what such an attack would mean for the world. \n\n\n\n\u201cBombing would cross a major threshold that heretofore has not been crossed in US-China relations,\u201d Stokes continues. \u201cTrying to think through the particulars of that will be especially important, in part because it will help policymakers\u2026 start to work backwards based on the unique nature of the technology, in the same way that in a past era, policymakers would learn about nuclear weapons.\u201d\n\n\n\nThe difference is that nuclear weapons are physical objects which can be empirically observed. AGI, in contrast, remains a fantasy \u2014 albeit one which can evidently justify preparations to make war \u2014 not unlike the fiction of weapons of mass destruction which justified the brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.\n\n\n\nAnd that\u2019s not to mention the fact that China\u2019s approach to AI development is dramatically different than the United States\u2019, which currently leads the world in most large language model (LLM) benchmarks. If anybody is chasing AGI, it\u2019s the US \u2014 which surely wouldn\u2019t take kindly to news that Chinese leaders were organizing war games around its own AI development.\n\n\n\nEven so, Stokes is undeterred in painting China as the ultimate boogeyman. He warns that Chinese AI companies could make a \u201csurprise technological breakthrough\u201d that brings it closer to AGI, and thus the ability to produce cutting-edge \u201coffensive cyber tools \u2014 in other words, cyber weapons.\u201d\n\n\n\nStokes, who previously served as national security advisor to then-vice president Joe Biden as well as the Department of Homeland Security, has long worried about the economic strength of the US relative to its chosen adversaries. Still, his latest comments mark a severe escalation, even for the US national security establishment.\n\n\n\nWhile making a mountain out of a Chinese molehill, Stokes\u2019 report also takes a blind eye to the present-day use of AI by his own country\u2019s military. In Iran, for example, US forces have used LLMs like Claude and Grok to help plan out bombing campaigns \u2014 which may have played a role in the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls\u2019 school bombing, which killed over 150 elementary students and staff.\n\n\n\nMore on Chinese AI: US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones"
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