Dangerous Technology for Americans Only

andsoitis

> It is not just about capabilities, it is about racism and nationalism. If you have the wrong passport, you are not to be trusted. This is a very different thing from safety, and Europeans should pay close attention to it. And this is where one might as well stop reading. This is standard practice for nation states. To call it racism is braindead and lazy.

zhoBEENG

I appreciate this post a lot, even if I don’t agree with all its points, as I think it is grappling with the right problems. Europe needs to build and build with urgency if it’s ever going to get out of this mess it’s in. The reaction to the US government restricting access to foreign nationals is interesting to me. On the one hand, people rail against US imperialism. On the other, they get angry when they don’t have access to the tools of empire. It feels very “What have the Romans ever done for us?”

k310

Who remembers export controls on encryption? Technology transcends the narrow-mindedness of nationalism. We are one world. Nationalism is another tool for power-hungry people who thrive on a divide-and-conquer strategy. All for one, and that's all.

throw-the-towel

Great article. Sadly, much of the discussion about Europe amd tech immediately devolves into Europeans sniffing their own farts. It's refreshing that Armin isn't doing the same, and sad that I'm even finding this notable.

_doctor_love

Sadly I think it is too late to avoid war. It’s an if not a when.

blevinstein

IMO the US administration actions are less about actually caring whether foreigners have access to these tools, and more about legal/political precedence. In the US there's a long history of executive or legislative branches crying "national security" to shut down things they don't like, and courts will rarely stop them (or do so extremely slowly after months of deliberation. (The other common cry is "child sex abuse" but for obvious reasons this administration is less interested in talking about that particular topic.) https://xcancel.com/i/status/2010634987872387438

mikewarot

Just like with encryption, the deliberate crippling of capabilities in the US will simply push innovation elsewhere. This action signals that US LLMs/AI are a liability, and will move investment and markets to seek safety in China and elsewhere. It seems the US is trying to speedrun its collapse.