As I head home from five days in Paris at the AI Action Summit, some thoughts on what we learnt about the international picture.
* What worked
* What didn’t
* What needs to change.
A 🧵
The French attracted great attendance from world leaders.
Vice President Vance being there just weeks into a new administration. And Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqin.
That is something to be proud of and the team worked flat out.
Jan 16 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
“Genesis” by Henry Kissinger, @ericschmidt & Greg Mundie faces up to the prospect of superintelligence & asks the hard questions about what its arrival means. The security chapter, which @nfergus says is “the book’s most powerful section”, is eye opening. Some quotes & thoughts:
“If, following from the instinct for self preservation, each human society wishes to maximise its unilateral position, then the conditions would be set for a psychological contest between rival military forces & intel agencies, the like of which humanity has never faced before.