The Illusion of China’s AI Prowess

Meet the authors:

https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/helen-toner/

https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/jenny-xiao

https://jeffreyjding.github.io/

Oxford and jaw-boning heavy, not an American in sight. How does someone like Helen end up being a director at OpenAI?

https://openai.com/blog/helen-toner-joins

"Helen has deep expertise in AI policy and global AI strategy research"

There is a funnel from academia to pluck individuals and propel them to policy level positions. None of the above's CVs remotely suggest deep expertise in anything but putting words together and being a "good soldier" for the Oxford-Rhodes thing.

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"Americans should not be haunted by the specter of an imminent Chinese surge in LLM development. Chinese AI teams are fighting—and often failing—to keep up with the blistering speed of new research and products emerging elsewhere. When it comes to LLMs, China trails years, not months, behind its international competitors."

AI is not limited to LLM. The entire article is "nothing to worry about, China is behind in LLMs" which does not seem to serve America's interest, rather China's, and possibly NVIDIA and friends.

Even Foreign Affairs is going down the tubes. Somewhat depressing.