Seeking Alpha’s roundup of statements, announcements, and remarks that could impact the technology sector.
- Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said China remains about six months behind the West in the development of AI.
“They’re very good at kind of catching up to where the frontier is and increasingly capable of that. But I think they’ve yet to show they can innovate beyond the frontier,” Hassabis told Bloomberg during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
- Anthropic (ANTHRO) CEO Dario Amodei said the U.S. government’s decision to allow AI chips to be shipped to China carries “incredible national security implications.”
“It would be a big mistake to ship these chips,” Amodei told Bloomberg in Davos. “I think this is crazy. It’s a bit like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.”
Amodei’s remarks come in the wake of U.S. approval of the sale of Nvidia (NVDA) H200 AI chips to customers in China.
- Palantir (PLTR) CEO Alex Karp said AI will eliminate the need for workers to migrate en masse for work, especially if they have vocational skills.
“There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, especially those with vocational training,” Karp told Bloomberg in Davos. “I do think these trends really do make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration unless you have a very specialized skill.”
Karp added that AI will make vocational workers more valuable “if not irreplaceable,” while “elite” white-collar workers would be more vulnerable to job disruptions.