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The political economy of Manus AI - Marginal REVOLUTION

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Early reports are pretty consistent, and they indicate that Manus agentic AI is for real, and ahead of its American counterparts. I also hear it is still glitchy Still, it is easy to imagine Chinese agentic AI “getting there” before the American product does. If so, what does that world look like? The cruder way of putting the question is: “are we going to let Chinese agentic bots crawl all over American computers?” The next step question is: “do we in fact have a plausible way to stop this from happening?” Many Chinese use VPNs to get around their own Great Firewall and access OpenAI products. China could toughen its firewall and shut down VPNs, but that is very costly for them. America doesn’t have a Great Firewall at all, and the First Amendment would seem to prevent very tough restrictions on accessing the outside world. Plus there can always be a version of the new models not directly connected to China. We did (sort of) pass a TikTok ban, but even that applied only to the a

Early reports are pretty consistent , and they indicate that Manus agentic AI is for real, and ahead of its American counterparts. I also hear it is still glitchy Still, it is easy to imagine Chinese agentic AI “getting there” before the American product does. If so, what does that world look like? The cruder way of putting the question is: “are we going to let Chinese agentic bots crawl all over American computers?” The next step question is: “do we in fact have a plausible way to stop this from happening?” Many Chinese use VPNs to get around their own Grea

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