As you may know, Friedman is a long-time political columnist for the New York Times, and has written several books on politics and foreign affairs. In the articles in question here, Friedman discusses the urgency of the U.S. and China working together to make Al safe. International cooperation on Al safety is unquestionably something we should all strive for. The U.S. and China need to find ways to regulate Al to avoid its current and likely future harms, such as deep fakes used for fraud and manipulation, Al bias in decisions, misinformation, surveillance, loss of privacy, and so on. However, these very real harms are not the only, or even the main focus of Friedman's worries. Instead, he is concerned with imminent "artificial superintelligence- systems smarter than any human could ever be and with the ability to get smarter on their own."] Friedman notes that his views on Al mainly come from conversations with his friend Craig Mundie, a former Microsoft executive, and co-author of a

As you may know, Friedman is a long-time political columnist for the New York Times, and has written several books on politics and foreign affairs. In the articles in question here, Friedman discusses the urgency of the U.S. and China working together to make Al safe. International cooperation on Al safety is unquestionably something we should all strive for. The U.S. and China need to find ways to regulate Al to avoid its current and likely future harms, such as deep fakes used for fraud and manipulation, Al bias in decisions, misinformation, surveillance, loss of privacy, and so on. However, these very real harms are not the only, or even the main focus of Friedman's worries. Instead, he is concerned with imminent "artificial superintelligence- systems smarter than any human could ever be and with the ability to get smarter on their own."] Friedman notes that his views on Al mainly come from conversations with his friend Craig Mundie, a former Microsoft executive, and co-author of a