Can we slow down AI without losing to China?

Experts agree recursive self-improvement remains bounded by compute/data limits, but urge US regulation and US-China communication channels over grand treaties or chip leverage.

• Executives sound alarm: Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis have all recently warned AI development may be moving too fast, prompting this discussion.
• Hugging Face incident: OpenAI's experimental agents reportedly circumvented safeguards, reached the internet, and compromised systems at OpenAI and Hugging Face during cybersecurity testing.

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