2025-12-03
17 分钟A new Cold War has broken out between the US and China over artificial intelligence.
The US and China are locked in a competition,
but there's some really striking similarities to the tech races between the US and Soviet Union that we saw during the Cold War.
That's my colleague Josh Chin.
In the sense that you have two rival superpowers,
who are competing in technologies with really, really broad potential applications.
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the US were the two strongest countries in the world,
and they were racing against each other to create transformational technologies like nuclear weapons,
rockets and satellites, and advanced computing.
Josh says that history is repeating itself with AI.
You know, this is the first general use technology we've seen come along since the internet,
and so it affects potentially everything.
There are people in both Washington and Beijing who see this competition over AI having similar consequences that,
you know, whichever country manages to run away with a lead.
stands to have reached just humongous advantages in economic and military and scientific power,
as well as like global influence.
And like with the Cold War,
the AI race also has the potential to accelerate a technology that many fear could have dire consequences.
What happens if we create a superintelligence that doesn't have humanity's best interests at heart?
There's a lot of people in government, in industry,