President Xi Jinping's opening keynote at WIC shows Chinese leadership is genuinely earnest about AI safety — calling for safeguards against loss of control, risk-awareness, and keeping AI under human control — and it reads as more AI-safety-hawkish than any comparable statement from a prominent American politician.

45:14answer for that really, but I think one candidate answer is that it comes from the top. So, I have a few quotes here from she's speech at WIC that I think would probably surprise many American listeners. certainly should surprise those that would say China will never care. This is any regulation we do is a gift to she. I would think twice about that. Here are some quotes from and this

45:40is the opening keynote. The first 20 minutes of WIC, this big event he's there to headline it. I wasn't in the room. There were a few hundred people in the room and I did I did talk to a couple people who were in the room. You know, security was obviously super tight. They they were in the room for like a couple hours before he showed up and took the stage. So

46:00really big deal. And they also they think really hard about these speeches. He's not somebody who's like out there winging it. They he chooses his words very carefully. They also choose their words in the translation very carefully. They put an English translation out. If you a couple events that I went to, there was live simultaneous translation including of a couple panel discussions that were happening in Chinese and then being

46:26translated through the earpiece live for me and and others in the audience who didn't speak Chinese. Very nice of them to do that, right? I mean, you would not get that sort of translation as kind of a standard expectation if you came to a similar event in the US. You'd be on your own. you'd be expected to speak English or figure it out for yourself there. They obviously don't expect that

46:48we're going to speak Chinese. They want to welcome guests. They do go to the trouble of doing this simultaneous translation. Nevertheless, if you're talking a panel discussion, at least in my experience, the simultaneous translation of panel discussions is rough. Like I there were there was one that I remember especially where I was like, I have no idea what they're just talking about really. you were getting the kind of big themes that

47:13they were talking about, but like really what were they saying? I found it very difficult really get that from the live simultaneous translation. Now, they don't do like random translator decides what the English version is going to be on the fly when she gives a speech. He's got his speech prepared and they've got an English translation of that ready to go. And what you are getting in the

47:35English translation is like going to be again pretty well and carefully thought through. So I sourced these following quotes from and there I think there are a couple different versions still somehow. I'm a little bit confused honestly by why there are multiple different translations. I guess the Chinese government gives an official one. Of course people are free to do their own translation and they might want to translate certain things a

47:58little bit differently. they might think they have a better better way of understanding what was said in Chinese and how we should understand it in English. The version that I'm pulling from here was from Matt Sheihan's blog where he just provided a full English translation and then did a bunch of commentary on it. But here are three quotes that I think should cause anybody with an extreme position on what China