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Featured links How Systems Acquisition and Software Development Flaws Contribute to Military Accidents 1 hour, 2 min. mark The Limits of Safety Machine Failing: How Systems Acquisition and Software Development Flaws Contribute to Military Accidents AI’s $600B Question The New Artificial Intelligentsia On Hilke Schellmann’s “The Algorithm” UCLA Burkle Center webinar on my book Thank you for reading...

Featured links Coming back from “internal injuries,” AI applications are opening up overseas CAC solicits public opinions labeling AI-generated synthetic content  Scout Soda Science - A Conversation with Susan Greenhalgh New Books Network Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an As...

Plus, detailed notes on the fifty-year effort to improve coal mine roof safety. Featured links Why is (Alibaba’s) Tongyi the most popular open-source large model The Canary - Michael Lewis on Chris Mark of the Department of Labor The Fifty-Year Effort to Eliminate Roof Fall Fatalities from U.S. Underground Coal Mines Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly trans...

Featured links ChinAI #269 A Jiangsu factory installed surveillance cameras in the men’s restroom: employees complained…the company’s response: “installed incorrectly and it has been fixed.” China’s Comprehensive Computing Power Index (2024) Why is (Alibaba’s) Tongyi the most popular open-source large model? The three year countdown: how far has it gone with the replacement with domestic databases...

Featured links Their AI lovers cheated on them The Canary - Michael Lewis on Chris Mark of the Department of Labor China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans New data reveals exactly when the Chinese government blocked ChatGPT and other AI sites China to require labels for AI-generated content as tech brings fresh challenges Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (...

Plus, a detailed probe into China's new national system [新型举国体制]. Featured links A New-Style Whole-of-Nation Approach to High-end Machine Tools Made in China 2025 Key Area Technology Roadmap China’s Views on AI Safety are Changing — Quickly The Dilemma of Intelligent Computing Centers (Chinese) The Will of the Many Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly t...

Featured links Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for October 2022 controls AI will likely affect military power CSET book talk on A Growing Yard: The Biden Administration’s China Export Controls Are Ensnaring CPUs Frontier safety & governance post at DeepMind Survey of Chinese Students on AI Risks Thank you for reading and engaging These are J...

Featured links Technology and the Rise of Great Powers A reporter tests Chinese LLMs on how they can help with her job Nature ChinAI #277 Book launch event Book talk Managing the Sino-American AI Race Interoperability in AI Governance: A Work in Progress The Use of Trade Remedies Against China Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-langu...

Featured links International Studies Quarterly 221,000 copies in print Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive of all past issues  here  & please  subscribe here  to...

A profile of Xiaohongshu as a different kind of search engine. Featured links How many times do you search Xiaohongshu every day? 36 percent of people My book launch event at Elliott School of International Affairs Innovation Files podcast Planet TikTok China’s Real Economic Crisis Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings...

Featured links ChinAI #267 Shao Heng ChinAI #271 Tracing the Roots of China’s AI Regulations AI Safety Benchmark ChinAI #261 The assessments include a score for precision and recall rate Workplace AI in China With Smugglers and Front Companies, China is Skirting American AI Bans Cameron Tracy’s work 2025 Horizon fellowship Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly...

Featured links Technology and the Rise of Great Powers Who took all the bidding orders for large models? US-China Business Council report Book review of Technology and the Rise of Great Powers in Cloud Computing White Paper (2024) Practice and Prospects for the Application of Large Models in the Government Domain Podcast narrations of ChinAI newsletter Thank you for reading and engaging These are...

Featured links Technology and the Rise of Great Powers After a 20 billion (RMB) valuation, who can China's large model companies still get money from? ChinAI #264 ChinAI #257 ChinAI #199 The Promise and Pitfalls of Government Guidance Funds in China Elsevier’s Insights 2024 Attitudes toward AI Report Why We Remain Fascinated With Twisters Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (s...

Featured links An Ethnic Chinese History of Computer Vision AI entanglements - Balancing risks and rewards of European-Chinese collaboration Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset The Era of Killer Robots is Here Summer Webinar Series on U.S. emerging tech policy careers Horizon Institute for Public Service Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of C...

Featured links An Ethnic Chinese History of Computer Vision Jianxiong Xiao The Wudaokou Origins of China’s Large Models (ChinAI #232) Do China’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms Welcome State Investment? Is Xenophobia on Chinese Social Media Teaching Real-World Hate? Unit X - How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War Thank you for reading and engaging These are...

Saad Siddiqui and Shao Heng track the evolution of the TC260 standard on genAI security requirements. Featured links Changelog for TC260 standard — GenAI Security Requirements Saad Siddiqui International Dialogues on AI Safety ChinAI #262 Ang Shao Heng Geopolitechs newsletter 2024 NPC Lecture: AI and China — History, Prospects, Challenges, Strategies and Legislation AI Risk Management Should Incor...

Featured links Intelligence Revolution or "Scale" Revolution? Thread on Pentagon’s anti-vax campaign to undermine China’s Sinovac in the Philippines Teacher’s Pet A price war breaks out among China’s AI-model builders GovAI Job Opportunities Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assi...

Featured links ChinAI #256 What is the “mother tongue” of LLMs? The first anonymous Chinese large model arena ranking is released Counting down the life and death of a star autonomous driving company Latest developments in the “Stanford AI team plagiarizes China’s open source model” case ChinAI #199 China plans to introduce data property rights system After the (LLM) price war, Zhipu AI has come t...

Featured links AWS China, you should lower your prices AWS China, you should lower your prices Goldfish Memories Import AI 374 - China's military AI dataset; platonic AI; brainlike convnets Open-Source Assessments of AI Capabilities: The Proliferation of AI Analysis Tools, Replicating Competitor Models, and the Zhousidun Dataset Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes)...

Featured links ChinAI #261 797 million monthly active followers ChinAI #92 May 19, 2024 International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Check out the archive o...

Featured links An Ordinary Beijinger’s Thoughts on Interacting with AI The State of AI Safety in China How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda CSET’s policy.ai newsletter China’s aging tech workers hit by ‘curse of 35’ Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assist...

Featured links Horizon Robotics vs Black Sesame NEC Silicon Valley - the Lab that Dragged Chinese Companies into the AI Era (ChinAI #220) 5 colleges lose Chinese flagship programs because of Defense Dept. cuts State of AI Safety in China (Concordia AI Spring 2024 Report Launch Event) The Teens Making Friends with AI Chatbots Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) week...

Featured links The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age China’s Leap into the Information Age Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies China bets on industrial AI Troubling the Water The Cloud Under the Sea Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language...

Featured links CASS Draft AI Law v1.0-to-1.1-to-2.0 Saad Siddiqui DigiChina covered this 16th Annual GW China Conference China keeps generative AI on simmer The Global AI Talent Tracker 2.0 Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Ass...

Featured links Authoritative large model AI Safety Benchmark first round results officially released ChinAI #246 Matt Sheehan CSET primer First Chapter of Thread comparing China’s GenAI model registration data w/ algorithm registry Caijing investigative report Thank you for reading and engaging These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topi...