Not sure if they’ve edited it, but right now it reads:
the historian George Dyson envisioned the internet as a sentient being that would one day reach artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Inside China, such a network of large-scale AGI systems could autonomously improve repression
The whole piece looks like written by, or with the use of, some LLM.
Other than that, there are two valid points that could be made:
- Massive application of AI to city-wide surveillance, with zero regards for privacy, could provide an AI agent system with enough compute power to self-train in realtime.
- DeepSeek is plausibly a Trojan horse, trained with a repression based bias, if not directly with hidden malware features.
The near future will see a soft “AI war” in the form of publishing models — to be used as agent cores — with different ideological biases.