Right now the PRC is looking like the adult in the room. They also have a view of how AI should work that's smaller and more worker centric rather than trying to create superintelligent worker replacements.
The PRC (like any superpower) has done some bad shit, but if you're going to paint them as the bad guy keep in mind the USA has a long, long history of genocide, slavery, overthrowing foreign governments for corporate interests, unjust wars, political meddling, etc. The scales of righteousness don't tip in our favor TBH, we just have better PR and a nicer veneer over our brutality.
> Right now the PRC is looking like the adult in the room
Only if you ignore history.
Didn't the PRC violate every known labor/enviromnetal/human-rights standard to become the top in manufacturing?
https://matthewekahn.substack.com/p/what-role-did-regulation...
The US did the same thing. Environmentalist and workers rights movements date back to the 19th century. China's position on this is that the western nations that already developed are trying to pull the ladder they used up and wag a finger with false morality with the intent of maintaining global hegemony.
> The US did the same thing.
Except that there were no global standards at the time. You can't point to any single country and say they were doing worse. They all were bad.
But China actively flouted established international norms. Now that is behind in AI it is clamoring for controls for others.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3692695
> are trying to pull the ladder they used up
Every country spies and steals but it is the scale we are talking about. China does it at a scale that dwarfs any historical or current comparisons.
China doesn't have any grounds here when they turn around and complain about India copying its playbook:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/renewables/chi...