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Potential measures of China’s decline:

• purchasing power is not as high even if its a huge economy
• incomes are not rising as fast as they did before
• model of property-driven growth

influences

• China’s working age productivity is shrinking
• China’s total productivity has decreased
• ROI from Chinese companies have declined
• …and thus foreign direct investment is reversing

bailouts

Unlike the US financial crisis, when big companies go bust, China didn’t bail out companies except to finish already-purchased homes.

four pillars of medical ethics

• beneficence: act in the best interest of the patience
• non-maleficence: do no harm
• autonomy: respect the right of people to make decisions for themselves
• justice: seek fairness with what we do

…on children

• autonomy is very adult centric… “substituted judgment is hard”
• altruistic surrogacy: act in the children’ best interest
• altruism: doesn’t require the consent / knowledge of others + doing something for someone else

ethical equivalency

Agreeing to withhold a treatment is equivalent to agreeing to stop it.

Talk by Lisa Soder

AI Regulation

• EU GPAI Code of Practice: makes fronter model providers track, document, and report AI incidents
• SB 53 Large Developer: identify and respond to safety incidents + internal governance

Problem: define what it means to “track, document, and report”?

Methods

Goals

• help companies with compliance
• help regulators for assessing compliance
• technical tooling

Approach

• legal analysis
• best practices in AI
• best practices in other domains

What is an AI incident?

“In house evaluation is not enough.”

A compiler complies code!

parts of compilers

lexical analysis

make stuff tokens — “identifying words”

an example!

if x == y then z = 1; else z = 2;

• if: keyword
• " “: white space
• x: identifier
• ==: relation

… and so on

parsing

abstract syntax treeifying the tokens — “identifying sentences”.

See parser.

semantic analysis

semantic analysis

optimization (compilers)

make the IR faster — “editing”.

goals

• run faster
• use less memory
• generally, conserve resources

tricky tricky!

Can this be optimized to x=0?