About this episode
Greg Allen and Jack Conlin preview the upcoming summit between the United States and China and the role AI will play in the meeting. They outline how China enters the summit maintaining access to U.S. compute, pushing for domestic alternatives to U.S. and allied chips and semiconductor equipment, spreading its AI models globally, and continuing to engage in distillation. Then, they go over U.S. intelligence and industry reports of distillation, previews of the summit itself, and Greg offers his prediction on what to realistically expect from the summit.
In this episode
- 00:00Introduction
- 1:00Why China might feel good - continued access to American compute
- 14:17Why China might feel good - domestic Chinese chip push
- 24:30Why China might feel good - domestic Chinese SME push
- 35:54Chinese open models and HUMAIN
- 38:26Chinese concerns - AI-enabled cyber risk
- 43:31Chinese concerns - loss of control
- 51:46How the United States feels heading in
- 58:28Detailing US intel reports of Chinese distillation
- 1:02:57Breaking down Anthropic’s distillation & AI misuse report
- 1:10:23Previewing the summit itself
- 1:18:07Potential AI Outcomes from Summit