In fact, as AI users from China, we had already experienced unfair treatment much earlier under Anthropic’s so-called safety measures and safety policies.
They excluded certain people simply because they came from a particular region. They did not even require those people to actually live in that region. Identity alone was enough to become a reason for exclusion.
Of course, I do not deny one reality: they are worried that China’s use of AI may create a powerful competitive relationship with the West. In order to maintain their advantage, they may feel compelled to take certain measures. I can recognize that, on a practical level, there is a certain necessity behind this.
But the way they are doing it is turning them into the very dragon they claim to be fighting.
In other words, in order to destroy what they call evil, they are creating another, even more frightening Leviathan. They are becoming the authority that decides who is qualified to use advanced tools and who is not.
And in reality, this creates a new form of inequality, as well as a new privileged class.
I think this kind of safety strategy is a philosophical disaster. Because even if its original intention is good, it will eventually move toward the very evil it most desperately claims it does not want to become.
The dragon slayer, in the end, becomes the dragon.🐉