Chinese communist dictator Xi Jingping and his minions are starting to have second thoughts about getting into this whole “AI race” thing and are starting to realize that losing to the United States might actually be preferable to building a machine mind capable of the kind of independent thinking discouraged by the party’s culture as a potential threat to their rule, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Although China’s government sees AI as crucial to the country’s economic and military future, regulations and recent purges of online content show it also fears AI could destabilize society. Chatbots pose a particular problem: Their ability to think for themselves could generate responses that spur people to question party rule,” the Journal writes and L-O-fucking-L, stupid commies.