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Development pace in AI is infrastructure, the variable that determines how quickly a laboratory builds empirical knowledge of its own systems and how much that knowledge accumulates relative to competitors.
Huawei's chair has called on China's artificial intelligence laboratories to accelerate their work, a direct counter to Silicon Valley's calls for restraint grounded in rising concerns that advanced AI poses existential risks to humanity.
The Silicon Valley argument for slowing down rests on the view that AI capabilities have advanced faster than humanity's ability to assess whether the technology is safe.
That position has driven calls for a deliberate reduction in the pace at which AI is developed and deployed. Huawei's chair has framed China's response as the inverse.
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