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US China pact appears unlikely

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AI industry leaders and Britain urged U.S.–China coordination on international AI standards under the G20, but trust gaps and doubts about imported systems’ fit for developing countries made agreement unlikely.

Reposted by Will Jennings

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New global polling finds that people are much more likely to say AI will increase than decrease the gap between the rich and poor.
In the United States, 46% say AI will increase economic inequality, compared with just 5% who say it will decrease it.
September 23, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it".

(Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know)

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September 23, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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I was able to start us off and discussed some synthesis of work across projects to offer a high-dimensional read of the redefinition of informational boundaries in the world of AI with a specific focus on geopolitics.
September 23, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing.

If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so.

If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.
September 23, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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China knows the US needs a break – but not China, so Xi does not want to bring its AI team. It is quite, quite clear to me.

www.scmp.com/economy/glob...
Why China’s top AI pioneers are expected to miss this week’s Xi-Trump summit
Beijing has not officially announced details of the delegation, but the leaders of DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are absent from the reported list.
www.scmp.com
September 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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Views for @scmpnews.bsky.social: The potential absence of Chinese AI players is linked to differences in their respective domestic environments. Washington was facing growing domestic opposition and political pressure over the rapid development of the technology.
September 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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@jamellebouie.net draws appropriate parallels between AI in the 21st century and railroads in the 19th: “If A.I. promises to transform the entire society, then the entire society is entitled to have a say, even a decisive one, over the use, development and direction of the technology.”
Opinion | New Matrix, Meet the Old Matrix (Gift Article)
The railroads were once the octopus that A.I. is now.
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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Join us for the launch of "The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" by Cecilia Rikap: if we're serious about an innovation economy that delivers public value over extraction, we have to confront who actually rules it.
September 23, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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AI I reckon. Should we have a vote?
September 23, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham is right to call for work towards a set of global principles and standards to “ensure that AI development is safe” - time for all to come together and address this major challenge.
September 23, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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It’s as if Trump never read Orwell’s 1984. Oh, hold on …

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Will Trump's AI rebrand to 'super intelligence' catch on?
Some people close to the president have started to use the term but experts say it is unlikely to catch on.
www.bbc.com
September 23, 2026 at 4:46 AM

Reposted by Peter Thorne

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The cool thing about AI is that it finally ended that annoying trend where electronics got less expensive year after year.
September 23, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Nice reality check on the AI hype and why the techbros promote this BS: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
www.technologyreview.com
September 23, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Amidst growing concerns over AI's environmental impact and potential rogue behavior, Trump signals a shift towards prioritizing AI expansion while acknowledging the need for oversight of 'bad actors.' This comes as engineers and CEOs call for a slowdown, fearing loss of control over the technology.
September 23, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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In @fortune.com - The backwards AI pacing debate & how far business is from the frontier - DC & Silicon Valley have found a new fight over AI in pacing...Corporate USA is yrs behind the AI frontier & labs’ fortunes will be decided by trust & adoption, not raw capability.
fortune.com/2026/09/22/a...
The backwards AI pacing debate and how far business is from the frontier | Fortune
In every tech revolution, the greatest fortunes went to those who understood that a frontier is worthless until the settlers have arrived.
fortune.com
September 23, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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AI is generating a new wave of economic populism.

It could be a tipping point.

My latest in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/22/ai-economic-populism-tipping-point
AI is generating a new wave of US populism. It could be a tipping point | Robert Reich
It’s becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chin
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Use your human advantages as basis of working with AI to do things that neither of you could do alone.
www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-overha...
September 22, 2026 at 9:22 PM