Musk on China's AI plan: 'another reason to change course'

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: July 21, 2017
To:: Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever
Subject:: Beijing Wants A.I. to Be Made in China by 2030

They will do whatever it takes to obtain what we develop. Maybe another reason to change course. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/business/china-artificialintelligence.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&referer=

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Forwarding a news article about China's 2030 AI ambitions, Musk says China will do whatever it takes to obtain what OpenAI develops and suggests it is another reason to change course.

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Sent Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 3:34 AM. Body from the LessWrong transcription of OpenAI's Dec 2024 blog post; the article link is taken from the unredacted chain filed as Ex. 51 to the Wiener Declaration (Dkt. 328-55), whose OCR text layer garbles the URL slightly (it is shown here as the retrieval tool normalised it).

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OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: china, for-profit, strategy, national-security

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