Decrepit war hawk says we should attack more countries! Misunderstands what AGI is, more at 6!

Strike with what? We can't even protect our bases from Iran

I know, as a species, we're desperately trying to start World War 3 on a bunch of fronts, but this is one of the stupider ones.

We making anti-Obama posts now?

People might be more open to this post if they mentioned his current position at CNAS or even his former position as an Analyst in Institute of Peace, clearly an ill fitting role for the slopper, instead of some shit he did over a decade ago. And, a minor nitpick, he was an advisor for VP Biden (under Obama) and Congresswoman Amy Klobuchar, not Obama specifically.

With that out of the way, fuckin sloppers, man. They actually believe this shit or is Microsoft paying him up the wazoo?

Futurism links to the SCMP (which acts under the Chinese Communist Party's censorship regime) which in turn is referencing a CNAS' 'online event' and a 'CNAS report published last week', though there are no links to the online event nor the report.

I couldn't find the online event, but here is the report for those who want to read it: Superpowers and AGI - How U.S.-China Competition Could Be Shaped by the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence

The linked article is quoting Stokes, for example, saying,

"Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,"

and,

"Bombing would cross a major threshold that heretofore has not been crossed in US-China relations."

I can't find these and other quotations from the linked article in the original report (not even the SCMP is quoting these).

In the original report, there is no mention of a "US military strike against China" as the SCMP headline tries to make people believe.

In the original report, words like 'bombing' and 'espionage' - quoted by Futurism - don't even exist.

Though the report discusses the U.S./China rivalry regarding AGI, it does so in a much larger and more diverse frame, including the common U.S./China competition with the Global South and other regions, what supposedly happened if and when any other country develops AGI first, and more things related to this topic. It is by no means a report "U.S. versus China" as the linked article (and the SCMP) makes people believe.

AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky - which is also not mentioned in the SCMP - indeed suggested in 2023 that countries needed to be ready to “destroy a rogue da center by airstrike," but this was not directed specifically to China or any other country. He meant that as a possible (and, for now, theoretical) future measure in case a data center becomes dangerous for humans and humanity at some point in the future.

But you can perfectly combine all these fake quotations and half-truths to create a hopelessly distorted reality. This is pure propaganda aiming to sow division.