> Schrödinger's China at once is an evil entity looking to use AI for their own nefarious purposes yet also willing to cooperate with their main competitor to prevent other actors (who??) from achieving similar goals (all while under a chip embargo too!!)

Very good point. However, if one reads the transcript of the speech that Xi Jinping gave to the World AI Conference on 17 July, we see that he he is very much in favour of AI safety.

https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202607/17/content_WS6a5a1172...

> Second, we should strengthen risk-awareness and ensure that AI is secure and controllable. AI should be a trusted tool for humanity. We should take seriously the various types of inherent and secondary risks that AI may trigger. We should put in place laws and regulations, technological monitoring, early warning and emergency response systems in order to strengthen the line of security, prevent abuses and malicious use, and ensure that AI is always under human control. In the meantime, we should jointly oppose overstretching the national security concept in the field of AI and placing one country's security over that of others.

Now, let's contrast another important part of safety here. Amodei puts the fact that this will need to be a global effort as a mere note that sure, China will need to help too:

> Note that to be effective, testing would need to be global, which means even the CCP would need to be on board. I think this may actually be possible: as I wrote in The Adolescence of Technology, limited cooperation around preventing AI biological weapons may be possible because it is in China’s interest too.

International collaboration is the focus of Jinping's speech. But one imagines "cooperation" Amodei has in mind if "do what I say" while Jinping has more collaboration in mind here. (Even if you think 'china bad' they deserve credit for collaboration for their open weight models).