China’s drive to dominate the technology and the island nation is the biggest threat humanity faces.
… “whoever wins AI, whoever wins super intelligence, wins,” … if so the odds on winning Taiwan are becoming too good for Mr. Xi to pass up. … this island has become the single point of failure in the single most important technology the Communist Party wants to dominate. Washington, Silicon Valley and Wall Street need to recognize this shift in Beijing’s decision-making as the cost of not taking Taiwan may soon exceed the cost of taking it.
America holds a thin lead in the AI race. But if Mr. Xi concludes this lead is insurmountable—that he is increasingly on the losing side of a technology gap that will define military power for a generation—the case for his moving on Taiwan still becomes stronger. Why play a losing game when you can flip the board?
Taiwan’s defense sits at the heart of not only U.S. national-security strategy, but also America’s economic and AI strategies. We must therefore intensify our efforts to arm Taiwan to the teeth.
The biggest threat to humanity isn’t rogue AI; it is AI controlled by China, which would use this transformative technology to take Taiwan and displace America as the world’s dominant superpower.