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Compute Governance Report
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A RAND policy analysis relevant to discussions of compute governance as an AI safety lever; useful for understanding institutional and geopolitical dimensions of hardware-based AI oversight strategies.
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Summary
This RAND Corporation report examines policy mechanisms for governing access to and use of AI compute resources as a lever for AI safety and security. It analyzes options ranging from export controls to hardware-level monitoring, assessing their feasibility, effectiveness, and geopolitical implications. The report provides a framework for policymakers seeking to use compute as a tractable point of intervention in AI governance.
Key Points
- •Compute is identified as a key bottleneck for advanced AI development, making it a practical lever for governance interventions.
- •The report surveys multiple governance mechanisms including export controls, know-your-customer rules, and on-chip monitoring.
- •International coordination challenges are analyzed, particularly regarding US-China competition over semiconductor supply chains.
- •Trade-offs between security benefits and economic/innovation costs of compute restrictions are systematically assessed.
- •The report provides actionable policy recommendations for governments seeking to implement compute governance regimes.
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Dr. Li Bicheng, or How China Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Media Manipulation: Insights Into Chinese Use of Generative AI and Social Bots from the Career of a PLA Researcher | RAND
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The Chinese Communist Party has come to embrace social media as a way to influence domestic and foreign public opinion, actively seeking to use social media platforms for both overt propaganda and covert influence operations. The authors use extensive original Chinese-language open-source primary materials to examine how the Chinese military has conceptualized and operationalized its approach to cyber-enabled influence operations.
Dr. Li Bicheng, or How China Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Media Manipulation
Insights Into Chinese Use of Generative AI and Social Bots from the Career of a PLA Researcher
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga , Kieran Green , William Marcellino , Sale Lilly , Jackson Smith
Research Published Oct 1, 2024
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was initially concerned about the rise of social media, considering it a threat to the regime. The CCP has since come to embrace social media as a way to influence domestic and foreign public opinion in the CCP's favor. Even as Beijing blocks foreign social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter (now X), from operating in China, it actively seeks to leverage these and other platforms for both overt propaganda and covert cyber-enabled influence operations abroad. While the results have been limited so far, the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) could dramatically improve China's capabilities moving forward, posing a greater threat to global democracies.
Most research into Chinese social media manipulation focuses on its outputs to understand what Chinese actors are saying and doing on foreign social media. However, this research can analyze only what has already occurred and has been attributed to Beijing. This report contributes to public understanding of the CCP's foreign social media manipulation by exploring the inputs of Chinese strategy, operational planning, and capability development and looking forward to the potential implications of generative AI for Chinese social media manipulation.
The authors leverage extensive original Chinese-language open-source primary materials to examine how the Chinese military approaches social media manipulation. Specifically, they focus on a Chinese military-affiliated researcher, Li Bicheng, to understand how the Chinese military has conceptualized and operationalized its approach to cyber-enabled influence operations.
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