🎧 Why has China been invited to the AI Safety Summit?

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In today’s episode, hosts Sam Hogg and Steve Lynch discuss:

• The Isreal/Hamas war, and China’s strategic ambitions in this area

• What’s the latest on the BRI?

• How would Labour’s “securonomics” work with a Donald Trump presidency?

We also talk to Allan Nixon, Head of Science and Technology at the think tank Onward about the upcoming AI Safety Summit:

• Are the West and China developing AI in sync?

• What arguments are there for and against inviting China?

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Reading Notes

• Chatham House paper aiming to debunk accusations of Belt and Road Initiative debt trap diplomacy, and a useful (although dated) look at China’s BRI movements in the Indo-Pacific from the Lowy Institute

• Allan Nixon’s paper: WIRED FOR SUCCESS - Reforming Whitehall to support science and technology

• Government press release on the AI Safety Summit

• Jacob Mardell analyses ten years of the Belt and Road Initiative, and China and the Global South discuss it in relation to developing nations

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