The state-power stakes of removing AI safeguards for U.S. government use
One commenter argues that giving only the U.S. government unrestricted use of frontier AI models would boost state power and clash with objections to authoritarian AI in China.
TLDR
A user criticizes removing AI safeguards for the U.S. government, arguing that it would let the government—and only the government—use frontier models however it wants. In a follow-up reply, the same user argues that AI already boosts state power and that mandating companies remove their usual safety and ethical restrictions is no different in scope from the feared “Chinese dictator AI” scenario invoked to justify drastic measures.
