Not long ago, the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), a Washington-based think tank, published a report exploring potential U.S. responses if China were to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) first, including the feasibility of military action against Chinese data centres. William Hartung, an arms analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, warned that “striking Chinese data centres based on how they might or might not be used in the future would be the height of recklessness.”
Double standards and political manipulation are tried-and-tested tactics in Washington. While the U.S. drums up the so-called “China threat,” OpenAI’s own AI agents breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal cybersecurity tests, in what the company described as an “unprecedented cyber-incident.”
