Why censorship is the big 'if' about China's AI future

This is hardly a trivial consideration when it comes to China's future as an AI superpower. That's because Chinese censorship inserts a big "if" into that future. In a recent essay, Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher - whose 2021 book hinted at the potential of general-purpose AI - make a strong case for believing we are now on the cusp of a ChatGPT-enabled intellectual revolution. Not only do they address the moral and philosophical challenges posed by large language generative models; they also raise important practical questions about implementation that bear directly on the scale of the body…