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The Cognitive Revolution · Monday, July 27, 2026

China Trip Teaser: AI Safety and US-China Relations Focus

The host outlined a three-part series on their recent trip to China, focusing on the general experience and AI use in the first episode. Subsequent episodes will delve into China's AI safety and governance, and the broader US-China relationship in the context of AI development.

The tape

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Today, I'm going to cover the kind of general experience of going to China and the use of AI in China, use of technology in China generally, and a bunch of impressions that I had of the technology environment there, technology companies there, and takeaways from a bunch of conversations that I had with people about AI and their feelings about AI.
In the second episode, I'm planning to do a deeper dive into the state of AI safety in China.
And then in the third episode, I'm going to try to do an analysis of the US China relationship and what I think we can learn from China and what ultimately I think we should be striving for in terms of a relationship as we head closer and closer to the singularity.
Heard on The Cognitive Revolution — “Nathan Goes to China – Part 1: Tech & Agent Setup, Chinese AI UX, WAIC, and Attitudes on AI, published Monday, July 27, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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