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The speaker argues that China has an incentive to scrutinize U.S. AI labs, while the U.S. government has an incentive to scrutinize Chinese AI companies.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“other AI companies who have incentive to say like hey my competitor is being super unsafe other governments so like China has incentive to do this with U.S. labs U.S. you know government you know has incentive to do this with the Chinese AI companies sort of everyone who's an adversary or just is like wants to you know make sure that things are safe has this big incentive and now has the affordance to actually sort of look over what's going on what's you know what is sort of necessary to do safety and I think maybe one thing that's really topical here is like there's”1:08:54Report a misattribution
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