Episode
Why AI Safety Won't Make America Lose The Race With China
Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Dec 2, 2025 · 29 min
If we worry too much about AI safety, will this make us "lose the race with China" 1 ? (here "AI safety" means long-term concerns about alignment and hostile superintelligence, as opposed to "AI ethics" concerns like bias or intellectual property.) Everything has tradeoffs, regulation vs. progress is a common dichotomy, and the more important you think AI will be, the more important it is that…