The Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, or BRSL, launched a research project aiming to map U.S. and Chinese artificial intelligence development and the countries\u2019 growing AI race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through the program, student and professional researchers at the Goldman School of Public Policy will examine the trajectory of each country\u2019s AI development, their efforts to \u201cundermine\u201d each other and potential security risks, according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think one of the main focuses for us on this project is to reduce the ability of the US to find itself in a strategic surprise,\u201d said Leah Walker, executive director for BRSL.<\/p>\n
Researchers involved in the project will review literature relating to the growing competition between the U.S. and China over AI development and conduct interviews, examining the decisions of both sides\u2019 policymakers, stated Walker.The lab will also develop an exercise where participants can walk through a hypothetical AI crisis, exploring different resolutions through discussion and analysis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Policy research such as this can reduce uncertainty in the geopolitically-charged space of AI development, providing likely answers to problems that may arise, Walker noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During a two-hour summit in South Korea on Thursday, U.S. and Chinese presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping worked to come to a deal over a number of trade issues, including Chinese restrictions on the export of rare earth metals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a really good example is we saw lots of surprise over the past three weeks over these Chinese rare earth elements export controls,\u201d Walker said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t thrilled to see that surprise because there are a number of us in the policy side that have been trying to communicate to the industry and to the government that these export controls were likely going to come one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The project is supported by a $604,395 grant from the Future Life Institute, or FLI, according to Hamza Chaudhry, AI and national security lead. FLI is a philanthropic and research nonprofit dedicated to guiding technology towards \u201cbenefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks,\u201d according to its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c(BRSL) is one of the best centers in the country looking at questions of national security, geopolitical competition and tech policy,\u201d Chaudhry said. \u201cSo they seem like a very obvious choice for us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The grant will cover the lab\u2019s various expenses, including organizing four workshop discussions with research and policy experts, as well as travel costs to facilitate discussions with officials in Washington, D.C., Walker said BRSL was in conversation with government officials, but did not provide specifics about who.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both Chaudhry and Walker emphasized the importance of this work in order to avoid the mistakes of previous arms races such as the Cold War,which Walker referenced multiple times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo much of the focus on the so-called AI race between the United States and China is about who wins,\u201d Chaudhry said. \u201cAnd I think one of the things that we\u2019re trying to do is help fund important work that shows that racing itself might lead to both sides losing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, or BRSL, launched a research project aiming to map U.S. and Chinese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2007,23369,536,23372,8034,23373,23370,143,145,144,23371],"class_list":["post-32125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-ai","tag-berkeley-risk-and-security-lab","tag-donald-trump","tag-future-life-institute","tag-goldman-school-of-public-policy","tag-hamza-chaudhry","tag-leah-walker","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}