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When I taught geopolitics of AI this year (twice!) at @CU_NPSIA the classes were oversubscribed in both cases so I am offering a two-day (online) workshop on the geopolitics of AI through NPSIA-PT&D on February 4 and 5 (registration link in the next post).
What are the geopolitical implications of AI? How AI capabilities translate into geopolitical leverage and vulnerability? What are the national-security implications of transformative AI (including AGI and ASI), including cyber risks, military adoption, loss of control, power concentration, and international crisis instability? These and more are some of the questions we'll cover in the workshop.
If you are interested please do go ahead and register and share this with those who might be interested in understanding the geopolitical implications of this truly transformative technology.
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
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Millions died; "it was a tragedy". Still, the Five-Year Plan was fulfilled, and for this academic, sitting comfortably in Cambridge, that matters more. Because dictators are always more appealing
For once, the community note is actually useful. Millions of people did indeed die under Mao's reign. It was a tragedy.
But, for some reason, the Western mind seems incapable of grasping the complex impact of Mao. In the West, we refuse to acknowledge that Mao is actually respected and admired in China.
I've listed a few reasons in my original post. Unity and sovereignty are big ones. After a century of being carved up and subjected to imperialism, Mao unified China into a single central state. He removed foreign influence. He stood up to the US.
China’s status as a major power today rests on foundations built by Mao.
Balkan Devlen retweeted
Nothing says a country's not a dictatorship like having to issue grovelling apologies for mentioning that it was in the past.
Desde LALIGA lamentamos profundamente las declaraciones de Kylian Mbappé que han causado malestar y ofensa en China. Entendemos el daño ocasionado y, en nombre de LALIGA, quiero trasladar nuestras sinceras disculpas al pueblo chino.
Durante muchos años hemos construido una relación de respeto, confianza y cooperación con China, sus autoridades, sus instituciones deportivas, sus operadores audiovisuales y millones de aficionados al fútbol español.
No podemos permitir que una actuación individual empañe esa relación ni perjudique a los más de 20 clubes de nuestras competiciones profesionales y a millones de aficionados chinos.
Estamos adoptando las medidas a nuestro alcance y trabajando directamente con nuestros socios e interlocutores en China para superar esta situación.
Nuestro compromiso con China, su pueblo y sus instituciones es firme. Una relación construida durante tantos años no puede quedar dañada por un episodio individual.
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Contexto importante: Mao Zedong fue efectivamente un dictador.
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Balkan Devlen retweeted
I love any defense of a political leader that includes 'steel output.' What a wonderful metric. What a closer. Who could possibly be a "dictator" who also increased steel output? Inconceivable.
Balkan Devlen retweeted
Canadian Research Chairs are allocated according to equity targets pegged to population estimates. In other words, a quota.
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#DoubleTrouble @MLInstitute is back. In this episode I talked with @AaronGBurnett @DSI_Strategy on how to #MakeRussiaPay. ~$20 billion CAD of the aggressor #Russia’s money that #Canada can confiscate is sitting there. Why the Liberal government is not taking the lead in #G7?
As I argued in a piece published in early 2021, #DoubleTrouble is here and they are at war with us, whether we want it or not. @MLInstitute
“We have frankly all collectively perhaps underestimated the magnitude of this emerging axis and the strategic impact it’s having… These growing webs of sanctions evasion, tech sharing, disinformation, collusion, coordination, potentially in the area of sabotage across that spectrum of hybrid warfare, there was more going on than we were attuned to.”
“Putin is in the process of regaining the momentum in [Ukraine], thanks in part to the infusion of North Korean troops.”
“We won’t take the disruptive deterring types of measures that we need to pick apart this axis as we need to, until we shift our mindsets… and become more assertive… If we don’t face up to the reality that Putin is only still in the war in Ukraine today because of China’s economic and dual use support, we’re not going to fashion effective strategies for countering China’s strategic ambitions.”
“I think driving wedges between them is pretty fanciful”
The new episode of #DoubleTrouble is out! In this episode I talked with @EHunterChristie on why West's obsession with escalation management is the wrong framework to understand and deal with #Russia and what needs to replace it. @MLInstitute
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#DoubleTrouble is back with @UCerenkova - a leading expert on 🇨🇳 in Europe - just in time for the #RigaConf2024. We talked about how #China was and is seen in the #Baltics. @MLInstitute @LATO_LV @KAS_Canada
*I know, I keep nodding but she is right!
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Balkan Devlen retweeted
Sure, the bros using it can be annoying, but I actually think it’s good to use “prior” for “belief”. It implies that belief is inherently dynamic, & it adopts the language of Bayesianism, our best model of optimal belief change
There’s some value to being reflexively open-minded
The latest episode of #DoubleTrouble is out! I talked with @bctallis on #NeoIdealism, a grand strategy for the Free World to defend and secure our societies. Check it out below or wherever you get your podcasts. @MLInstitute @KAS_Canada
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Our new foreign policy podcast series #DoubleTrouble now has its own page. Make sure to check it out and watch/listen the previous episodes. New episodes coming every other Thursday. @MLInstitute @KAS_Canada
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Check out the latest episode of #DoubleTrouble with @jbmllr and @ALanoszka in which we discuss our recent report on #NATO in/with the #IndoPacific. Just the reading you need before #NATOSummit.
@MLInstitute @KAS_Canada @ConGeostrategy
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It is #DoubleTrouble time again. In this episode, I talked with @MLInstitute Senior Fellow and National Security project lead Alex Dalziel about his recent paper exploring #Russia - #China geopolitics in the Eurasian #Arctic. @KAS_Canada @NAADSN_RDSNAA
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