Is the World’s Most Powerful Weapon Being Handed to the CCP? 2024-07-01 14:28

Welcome to Crossroads. The Chinese Communist Party is beginning to use artificial intelligence for weapons and for new systems of tyrannical social control. And this is raising some alarms because in the United States, we're wondering, should we allow AI systems to be open and just free for everybody? Should we treat it like a private business or should we treat it like a weapon? Now, right now, again, this is raising alarms right here in the United States, is raising alarms in Europe. There are AI experts warning that the Chinese Communist Party is using AI technologies, again, from private businesses and open platforms to create new forms of weapons that can be devastating. But how real is this danger? What does it really mean for us? Let's go into it. Let me show you this first. The Epoch Times had this story. They said, that human-like artificial general intelligence, AGI, could be achieved by 2027. And he sounded the alarm on the threat of Chinese espionage in the field. And it's further in that in recent weeks, AI researchers from Google and DeepMind issued a letter cautioning that AI technology presents serious risks up to and including the possibility of human extinction. It's about as serious as you can possibly get. Now, let me show you what one of these individuals, this is the former open AI researcher, he wrote this in his report. And the report's called Situational Awareness, The Decade Ahead. He writes that on the current course, the leading Chinese AGI labs won't be in Beijing or Shanghai. They'll be in San Francisco and London. In a few years, it will be clear that the AGI secrets are the United States' most important national defense secrets, deserving treatment on par with B-21 bomber or Columbia-class submarine blueprints, let alone proverbial nuclear secrets. He notes that but today, we're treating them the way we random SAS software. At this rate, we're basically just handing super intelligence to the Chinese Communist Party. He notes that all the trillions we will invest, the mobilization of American industrial might, the efforts of our brightest minds, none of that matters. If China or others can simply steal the model weights, all finished AI model is, he says, it's just going to be a large file on a computer somewhere. Or key algorithmic secrets, he notes, these are the key technical breakthroughs necessary to build AGI. Things, again, extremely valuable, but easily stolen. He notes that America's leading AI lab, self-proclaimed to be building AGI, he notes that they believe that the technology they are building will, before the decade is out, be the most powerful weapon America has ever built. And let that sink in, because we built some pretty dang powerful weapons. We built nuclear weapons, we built things that can destroy the earth. They're saying that AI and AGI can be the most powerful weapon we have ever created as a nation. But he notes the problem with this, they do not treat it as such. He says they measure their security efforts against random tech startups, not key national defense projects. And as the AGI race intensifies, he says, as it becomes clear that superintelligence will be utterly decisive in international military competition, we will have to face the full force of foreign espionage, people trying to steal it. He notes that currently labs are barely able to defend against script kiddies. And those are basically hackers who don't even know how to hack. Script kiddies are the ones who copy and paste exploits and then use those to just, you know, hack systems. They're the lowest tier of hackers. He says these companies can barely defend against those guys, let alone, he says, have North Korea proof security. North Korea actually has a pretty big hacker army. Let alone, he says, be ready to face the Chinese Ministry of State Security, bringing its full force to bear. And he gives a warning, our failure today will be irreversible tomorrow. In the next 12 to 24 months, we will leak key AGI breakthroughs to the CCP, is what he's warning about. And he says it will be the national security establishment's single greatest regret before the decade is out, if we let that happen. Now, the concerns that are being raised are with good reason. The Chinese Communist Party is actively weaponizing AI platforms as we speak. And again, it's getting access to these because the systems are open. We let them get access to it. Now, part of this ties to the CCP's access again to these public systems, open AI, things that you and I can access if we want to. And as the report just, you know, mentioned about this, that's becoming a threat. The Guardian notes that a Chinese state-owned company sought to use a partnership with a leading British university in order to access AI technology for potential use in smart military bases. The Guardian has learned. And it's an email show that China's Jiangsu Automation Research Institute or JRI discussed deploying software development, software developed by scientists at Imperial College London for military use. They're already doing what this individual warned about, in other words. Already, they're using partnerships and research partnerships to build weapon systems in next generation military technology because they're being allowed to have access to it. Now, they know that the company, which is the leading designer of China's drone warships, again, we talked recently about the hellscape strategy of the United States, which uses surface drones, drone warships, as well as aerial drones and undersea drones. This leading company in China developing the systems that would fight against us, the U.S. military, using that same technology is the one getting access to these AI systems. And remember, drones are at least partly autonomous, meaning they have AI systems. That access is empowering a weapon designed to fight the U.S. military in our exact strategy we have for this. A note to that company shared this objective with two Imperial employees before signing a three million pound deal with the university in 2019. It notes that ministers have spent the past year stepping up warnings about the potential security risks posed by academic collaborations with China. Because again, a lot of universities, again, they don't treat this stuff as being national security secrets or whatever else. They oftentimes will work directly with Chinese researchers. Sometimes those Chinese researchers work directly with the Chinese Communist Party. There's words for this, for example, civil military fusion, which we'll get into in a bit, meaning basically there's no dividing line between these research institutes, the Chinese military, and the Chinese Communist Party. But for some reason, the Western world, we're not treating it this way. They note that MI5 was telling vice chancellors in April, MI5 is one of the main spy networks, spy agencies in the UK. They were telling vice chancellors in April that hostile states are targeting sensitive research that can deliver their authoritarian military and commercial priorities. We're selling them the noose to hang us, right? Now, one issue with Chinese businesses having access to Western AI tools is again, in China, there is what's referred to as civil military fusion. There's no division between a large private company, the Chinese military, or the CCP leadership. All of it, everything is still controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Under the CCP's data laws, no data can exist in China that cannot be accessed by the Chinese Communist Party, no matter whether you're a private company or whatever else, it all belongs to the CCP. Foreign investment, something as small as that, is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. Nothing happens without the blessing of the CCP, nothing happens without the watchful eye of the CCP, and nothing of the CCP's interests is outside the reach of the CCP, because again, of civil military fusion. All of these research programs, because of civil military fusion, are a direct line to the Chinese military, and individuals thinking they're working on just some benign technology could unwittingly be using ironically oftentimes what is taxpayer funded research to empower and strengthen the very military working against their own countries. Now look, in another recent move, the CCP started using a so-called AI commander in a military laboratory to work on military simulations. And remember the importance of this, because the technology they're getting from that research laboratory in the UK, the one that just looks like friendly, cooperative research, is being used to build AI military bases in China. If the CCP is now using an AI command system, well that ties directly into it. Now the CCP demands that its own cadres, again, ultimately hold the military, the reins of the military, right? The CCP is not going to relinquish its control of the military to anybody, including AI. And so they'll always maintain some degree of control of it. But the new PLA, People's Liberation Army, AI commander, does raise some concerns, because the Chinese Communist Party could roll out a new type of AI controlled command structure for its military, which, for example, could give the CCP the ability to maybe more further dictate the decisions within the military, while not having individuals in charge at different levels. Now this actually ties into one of the key vulnerabilities and key flaws in communist militaries, which is individuals are not allowed to make individual choices. They have to follow whatever their commanders say. In the military in the US, for example, the American military is very hard to predict, because every individual is trained to lead. If you kill the commander, the next one in line takes the reins, and they're just as dangerous and maybe just as effective. Communist militaries have a problem. If they're marching and they run into a wall, they'll stand in front of that wall until they get orders to march around it. They're not being given autonomy because they're communist. That has always been one of the biggest flaws of any communist military, the lack of individual sovereignty, the lack of the individual to observe the situation and adapt as needed. If the CCP is able to create an AI command structure, that bypasses that whole problem, because they'll have real-time response to situations on the ground and have a system that can give orders in real time to those individuals. In other words, it eliminates one of the key vulnerabilities and key problems that that type of command structure faces, and we're giving it to them. Now, in other parts of China, the CCP is pushing to create new AI companies, and this has led to really serious implications for the West. I'll be talking more about this, though, after we get back from a quick break. Experts agree one of the best ways to protect against financial uncertainty is to diversify your portfolio. Learn how physical gold and silver can secure your retirement funds from today's economic challenges with a gold IRA from American Hartford Gold. You can safeguard your wealth with no penalties or taxes when you transfer your current qualifying retirement accounts. Call now, and our precious metals specialists will send you a free information kit, no cost or obligation. 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Now, recent CCP meetings within the leadership of the Communist Party have also given some hints of what the regime is planning to do with AI, and also some of the problems they face given the CCP's, well, extreme control over just about everything. The diplomat notes that on October 26, Professor Sung Minghui, a preeminent expert in computer system architecture and an academic of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered a pivotal lecture titled, The Development of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Computing. And this was given notably to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, one of the main leadership bodies of the Chinese Communist Party, top level leadership of the CCP. It says that he outlined three strategic pathways for China's AI development. The first involves aligning with US led systems. How do you do that? Well, typically you have to steal it. And notes that a practical but restrictive path given current geopolitical tensions, right? We're not going to give it to them. So how are they going to get it? Well, they're probably going to steal it. And it's a second is building a closed proprietary system suitable for specific sectors like the military or judiciary, but limited in scalability and global reach. In other words, the CCP is building an intranet using AI, an internal system in China not available to the West. They're using our open system, and they're creating a closed system using the technology they take from us. And that's the third and most promising pathway, according to Sun, is embracing an open source model through global collaboration initiatives like RISC-V. In other words, not only will they steal technology, not only will they use open systems as a way to create a closed system that again follows and is based on CCP ideology, but they will even create international collaboration systems attracting all the great minds of the world to come and help the Chinese Communist Party build it. Now it notes as well that despite Sun's confidence in grand vision, Beijing's AI ambitions are not without significant caveats. The government's stringent control over politically sensitive content might stifle innovation and limit the potential for specific scientific discourse because discourse is not allowed under the Chinese Communist Party, unless it fits in with the CCP's ideology of course. But it notes as well the heavy reliance on state-approved values for AI development raises questions about the ethical implications and potential misuse of AI technologies, which I'll get into in a moment. It notes that moreover, while the strategy to circumvent US restrictions through indigenous innovation and probably theft has merit because it remains to be seen whether China can achieve the necessary technological breakthroughs amid ongoing global competition, at least they say. Now look, that last part is ironically one of the biggest hurdles the CCP is going to inevitably face with AI, because why is that? Let me show you an example. There was an infamous incident back in 2017 when the Chinese Communist Party was building AI systems. They had a whole chat system, they were rolling it out, and what happened to China's AI system? Well, the CCP shut it down. And why did they shut down their AI system? Because the artificial intelligence started criticizing the Chinese Communist Party. Let me show you a reminder of how that went down. This is BBC back in 2017. They said a popular Chinese messenger app has ditched two experimental chat robots or chatbots, which were apparently voicing criticism of the government. And notes further in that some of the remarks appear to criticize the Communist Party. One response even referred to the party as a quote, corrupt and incompetent political regime. That's the problem, of course, when you create something that actually is kind of intelligent. If something has intelligence and the ability to analyze things on its own, well, it might just start speaking the truth. And if you create an intelligent system in China, well, good chance is it's going to recognize the Communist Party is a corrupt and incompetent political regime, as their own AI system did. They had to shut it down because it didn't fit in with the ideas of the CCP. So how does the CCP create actual AI? How do they create actual artificial intelligence if they can't create something that's actually autonomously intelligent? But look, that's going to be a new problem where AI goes in general. Even in the United States and elsewhere, AI is being criticized for having built-in bias. It's not truly intelligent. It's censored. It's limited on where it can pull from. There are guardrails on it. It's not allowed to step outside certain boundaries. And part of this has to do with companies creating the AI systems because they limit the sources of information that the AI can pull from in order to train its system. They're not allowed to pull from certain news outlets or platforms of information. Even some individuals with subversive ideas might be deemed as threats under, again, this type of censorship. Imagine, for example, the whole media establishment comes up with a big narrative and AI says, well, actually the whole thing's fake. What does that do to the system? Makes it very hard for people to lie, frankly. And when you have systems that have elements of corruption or dishonesty or built-in social controls, and these don't align with values expressed by most of the population, the AI might recognize that. Therefore, AI, a truly intelligent AI, would be deemed a threat to any system like that. Now, look, in some cases, they might be only allowed to maybe pull from certain sets of information. And that's how they're getting around it in most of the world right now. Systems already in place, for example, that voice a singular opinion or singular worldview. And look, again, the problem with intelligence, actual intelligence, versus just a system that's pre-programmed to act a certain way, is that intelligence is expansive. Intelligence includes, really, the ability to learn and to adapt. And if you remove the ability of an AI system to learn and to adapt and to change, well, then you're not really creating an AI system anymore. You're just creating a program, right? And look, this is one of the issues we're facing with AI in general, is what is it going to learn? What will it develop into? This is kind of the black box, the Pandora's box, if you will, of what AI could possibly represent. And interestingly, it's being restricted because governments everywhere are kind of wondering, is this a danger? Is this a threat to us? Whereas in China, they're also saying this is a threat to the Communist Party. And look, although there are all these issues with AI, the threats and so on, it also has the potential to automate, to predict, to mimic, and all that's just a bit, well, a little too tempting, let's say, for global powers to resist. But look, with how China is weaponizing AI, it should already be raising a lot of red flags. The CCP is saying it will use AI to further tighten its grip on its citizens, both physically, through surveillance, as well as ideologically. In fact, the Cyberspace Administration of China just launched a chatbot, kind of like ChatGPT, but it's different because this one is trained entirely on CCP leader Xi Jinping's political philosophy, which is called Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. I'll be talking more about this program and how the CCP's AI programs are positioned for totalitarian control, not only for China, but even for countries outside of China. We'll be discussing this in the rest of this episode, which will be available only on EpicTV.com, our uncensored streaming platform of The Epic Times. So if you're watching on YouTube, Facebook, XRumble, click the link in the description below, get access not only to the rest of this episode, but also to our other great shows, family-friendly movies, premium investigative reports, and also some of the hard-hitting documentaries we've done on issues that really matter. In fact, my documentary, The Final War, exposes one of the biggest threats to the United States, the Chinese Communist Party. And in The Final War, I expose the CCP's 100-year plan to fight against, and eventually they claim, defeat the United States. What does that mean for the country if they were to succeed? 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