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Ethan Mollick:
I have no inside information, but every sign so far is that there is growing tension about open weights models between the US & China: the US announcing that they reserve the right to act against distilled models, then saying Kimi distills. Contradictory reports from China, etc.
Cross posting.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has instructed diplomats to push back on the idea that the US holds a 'kill switch' over American AI models, and has also asked them to fight digital sovereignty initiatives. Quoting from the cable: 'Pausing narrow uses or requiring a 30-day testing window prior to the release of a highly potent new technology is not a 'Kill Switch.' There is no government 'magic button.' This narrative is exaggerated and doesn’t capture the nuances of U.S. technology policy.' The cable goes on to describe digital sovereignty as 'efforts to restrict American tech firms access to foreign markets, subject them to localization requirements, charge them network usage fees, or force them to follow local rules around issues such as content moderation.' And instructs American diplomats to advertise American AI products as the best tools available and to describe efforts to build rival AI systems from the ground up as a waste of time and resources.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has instructed diplomats to push back on the idea that the US holds a 'kill switch' over American AI models, and has also asked them to fight digital sovereignty initiatives. Quoting from the cable: 'Pausing narrow uses or requiring a 30-day testing window prior to the release of a highly potent new technology is not a 'Kill Switch.' There is no government 'magic button.' This narrative is exaggerated and doesn’t capture the nuances of U.S. technology policy.' The cable goes on to describe digital sovereignty as 'efforts to restrict American tech firms access to foreign markets, subject them to localization requirements, charge them network usage fees, or force them to follow local rules around issues such as content moderation.' And instructs American diplomats to advertise American AI products as the best tools available and to describe efforts to build rival AI systems from the ground up as a waste of time and resources.
@yacineMTB I wrote an article about this!
The most idiotic thing about this distillation meme is that it is helping the Chinese probably 0.0001% as much as them having access to gpt 5.6 sol and fable to write code That is the real accelerant
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has instructed diplomats to push back on the idea that the US holds a 'kill switch' over American AI models, and has also asked them to fight digital sovereignty initiatives. Quoting from the cable: 'Pausing narrow uses or requiring a 30-day testing window prior to the release of a highly potent new technology is not a 'Kill Switch.' There is no government 'magic button.' This narrative is exaggerated and doesn’t capture the nuances of U.S. technology policy.' The cable goes on to describe digital sovereignty as 'efforts to restrict American tech firms access to foreign markets, subject them to localization requirements, charge them network usage fees, or force them to follow local rules around issues such as content moderation.' And instructs American diplomats to advertise American AI products as the best tools available and to describe efforts to build rival AI systems from the ground up as a waste of time and resources.