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Restricting equal access to AI resources: A warning - OpenAI’s move yesterday to restrict API access to China represents yet another move in a storied technology-based proxy war. Just last year was the embargo for ASML’s High-NA EUV and recently NVIDIA’S H100 chips, both ways to slow down Chinese tech progress and the latest victim, AI development. - I mentioned days prior the ‘AI race’ isn’t USA vs. China—it’s humanity vs. our challenges. In the vacuum, domestic firms like SenseTime, Zhipu AI, and Baidu’s Ernie AI have offered alternative solutions, potentially boosting China’s domestic AI capabilities near term. Researchers and companies left hanging will turn inwards, leading to uneven and unmonitored AI tech development. - While the move is based on geopolitical strategy and technological competition, I’m reminded that this is where the potential dangers of unchecked and unregulated AI development gets amplified, particularly in the race to assert geo-political dominance transparency and ethical oversight take the backseat. - Long term there is a real risk of creating an insular AI ecosystem or even agents that operates without the scrutiny and checks that international collaboration can provide.