Race dynamics

AI safety in parallel means creating touchpoints and information channels between the United States and China that strengthen the safety capabilities of each side.

Proposes 'AI safety in parallel' — each side hardening its own safety practices with information channels between them — as the realistic way to blunt race-driven corner-cutting when binding US-China agreements are out of reach.

Are the USA and China locked in a race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and global strategic dominance?

Scholarly analysis of 2017–2025 policy documents arguing the AGI-race narrative lacks evidentiary support on the Chinese side and functions as a self-fulfilling prophecy used to justify accelerated development and reduced oversight.

There's an open secret in DC: attach the word China to anything and you can get it done

Reported essay on how US labs and investors instrumentalized the China-race framing to win deregulation, export policy, and military contracts — the manufactured side of race dynamics, and how it forecloses cooperation.

being ahead reduces Unsafe play while falling behind increases it

Experimental test of the Racing to the Precipice logic: relative position, not individual risk appetite, drives unsafe development choices — implying structural interventions on competitive pressure rather than actor-level risk norms.

Chinese tech commentators are reading Western AI safety essays, taking them seriously, and engaging with their ideas on the merits.

Evidence that Western safety arguments get serious engagement in Chinese tech media — a datapoint against strong-form race pessimism about safety ideas failing to cross the divide.