#AI #China this tension is not a technical quirk to be engineered away but a genuine contradiction, one that China’s own political philosophy obliges it to confront. Levi Checketts of Hong Kong Baptist University, the author of the paper, contends that treating artificial intelligence as an insurance policy against ecological collapse is a form of moral hazard, borrowed from economics, that could excuse governments from doing the hard work of cutting carbon emissions now https://bioengineer.org/chinas-ai-ambitions-collide-with-its-own-climate-promises-study-warns/