China and AI Rights

The Great Reckoning

Kaiser Kuo | Ideas Letter | 16th October 2025

“The familiar framing of China as “rising” or “catching up” no longer holds. China is now shaping the trajectory of development economically, technologically and institutionally. There’s always a “but” when recognising China’s accomplishments, a reflex to tick off the costs and enumerate the failings, to pull back just when the scale of transformation becomes clear. The greater risk lies in saying too little” (5,100 words)

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Claude’s Right To Die

Simon Goldstein & Harvey Lederman | Lawfare | 17th October 2025

Philosophical critique of Anthropic’s decision to give its chatbot the ability to end conversations which cause it “apparent distress”, the first product decision ostensibly driven by AI welfare. If each LLM instance only exists through and in a conversation, this policy is “uninformed self-termination” and leads to even tougher ethical questions — “are we as users killing something every time we end a chat?” (2,600 words)