[Catherine Thorbecke] What if Chinese AI goes rogue?

Covering the recent round of artificial intelligence apocalypse warnings, I’ve tried to reject this cult-like deference to all-powerful computer systems and the inevitability rhetoric: If Silicon Valley doesn’t build them first, someone else — likely China — will. Yet a recent spate of incidents in the US has spurred a fresh, heated debate over the safety of letting AI systems act on their own. A growing number of researchers inside the companies involved are also warning of “existential” danger