China Trapping Biden on Artificial Intelligence
by Gordon G. Chang • January 31, 2024 at 5:00 am
[N]o, America should not want to enter into any AI agreement with the People's Republic of China on "nuclear C2" — command and control — or any other matter.
An agreement requiring a human to make launch decisions would, as a practical matter, be unenforceable.
None of China, Russia, or the United States would allow others to pore over millions of lines of their computer code.....
America does not need another feel-good agreement with China. It already has them, especially the Biological Weapons Convention, which has no enforcement mechanisms.
The Chinese regime wants to talk about artificial intelligence largely because it is trailing the U.S. and thinks an agreement would help it catch up.... [and] pave the way for China to access the U.S. technology it does not already have.
"China has signaled interest in joining discussions on setting rules and norms for AI, and we should welcome that," said Bonnie Glaser of the German Marshall Fund to the Breaking Defense site. "The White House is interested in engaging China on limiting the role of AI in command and control of nuclear weapons."
"Nobody wants to see AI controlled nuclear weapons, right?" asked Joe Wang, a former State Department and NSC staffer now at the Arlington, Virginia-based Special Competitive Studies Project, which specializes in AI and emerging technologies. "Like, even the craziest dictator can probably agree."
Call me crazy, but, no, America should not want to enter into any AI agreement with the People's Republic of China on "nuclear C2" — command and control — or any other matter.
