Peter Thiel: If the US slows down AI development, China wins: "There's some degree to which you can never just turn the clock back." "In theory, you could slow it down if you had genuine, deep cooperation across the whole world. But I think that would require like a one world government with real teeth, real force, and the classical liberal part of me thinks that's almost a frying pan into fire. It's a cure that's worse than the disease." "Of course you can have fake global government where you have a lot of conferences to discuss it, a lot of somewhat empty statements that get put out." "And then there's also a risk that it ends up being slowed down in the West and not in China." "The Pope recently issued this anti-AI encyclical. Maybe it was too harsh, but the rhetorical point I have on it is that the Communist Party of China is not going to listen to the Pope. There's a chance people in the US will. And so in effect, the Pope's encyclical was working for the Communist Party." "I'm not saying he was an agent of the communists, but he was at least acting as a useful idiot for the CCP." Via Mathias Döpfner