The importance of AI safety and the risks of stolen intelectual property

Leopold Aschenbrenner, former OpenAI expert, on AI development secrets being leaked to foreign nations like china. The counterinteligence war on AI spies.

[@lincolnuland5443]

Intellectual property doesn't exist anymore. sry. You record that information with numbers. You cannot copyright something that is intrinsically part of reality. Saying copyright laws apply to digital information is like saying "trees can only be exactly 7 feet apart on my property and no one else's property is allowed to have that." It's absolutely absurd.

[@ZareksAIRevolution]

You are absolutely right, but in the context of this interview, they are discussing the possibility of "stolen algorithms and weights" going specificaly into countries that have antagonistic culture or goals to America.
They seem to worry more about the risks to American Interests, than to intelectual property rights.
Intelectual property is just the "tool" they are using to manage those risks.