2026-03-17 12:13 UTC
A curious blind spot for AI doom forecasters in the US is forgetting that China is, at the top, a command economy. US AI may blindly hyperoptimize for the needs of capital but the CCP has no ideological commitment to the independence of capital per se, and unlike in the US you can easily imagine the state de facto nationalizing AI and distributing a lot of the value it generates via social benefit programs. This also applies to some degree in Europe, though Europe will lag in development.
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@keunwoo@indieweb.social 2026-03-17 12:22
China is also much less a petrostate than the US and its leadership class has no vested interest in delaying the green energy transition. On the contrary, its leaders know that due to geography, the Chinese population is more exposed to risk from global heating than the US, and China has been the the engine of the past decade of global energy progress. Chinese AI will eventually be entirely powered by solar and batteries.