“Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,” Stokes writes. (He’s not the first thinker to suggest bombings to stop powerful AI; in 2023, AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky suggested that countries needed to be ready to “destroy a rogue data center by airstrike.”)
Of course, the China hawk isn’t numb to what such an attack would mean for the world.
“Bombing would cross a major threshold that heretofore has not been crossed in US-China relations,” Stokes continues. “Trying to think through the particulars of that will be especially important, in part because it will help policymakers… start to work backwards based on the unique nature of the technology, in the same way that in a past era, policymakers would learn about nuclear weapons.”
Strike with what? We can’t even protect our bases from Iran
Well technically iron dome has been wildly successful in protecting Israel and it has even been expanded upon since the conflict started, but it’s kind of an odd statement “How could he stab anything, he has no shield!”
Are you implying China wouldn’t strike back if the US bombed their datacenters?
No I’m correcting a user semantically.
Would you like to hear my political beliefs on the matter?
More like “How could they win a fight when they can’t handle someone smaller who punches back”
Well, that’s more than a bit disingenuous to imply the USA has exerted it’s full military might on Iran, not to mention it doesn’t really capture the nuance that Iran’s military is basically the same as China’s: they supplied the armaments to begin with.
Nuance is when you say Iran is China’s peer in terms of military power? Sure thing bud
Nobody is saying that, but I definitely did say Iran’s military can be considered an arm of China’s, and that I mean with full seriousness and genuine belief.
Indeed.
Here’s hoping humiliation will deliver the lessons to the illiterate, as they are unable to understand their own words.
“We threw a ton of shields at their arrows and it defended us well enough, but we are running out of shields and their cheap arrows are cheap to manufacture at scale…well be fine!”