PLA article analyzes AGI's impact on future warfare

while western experts like rand's kyle chan argue china lacks a top-down state push for agi, a january 2025 article in pla daily confirms the people's liberation army is actively theorizing about its military implications. authors rong ming and hu xiaofeng describe agi as a "strategic competition" focal point that will introduce "intelligentized" warfare, compressing the observe-orient-decide-act (ooda) loop to speeds humans cannot match. this internal military focus contrasts with china's publicly stated "ai+" diffusion plan, which prioritizes industrial application over frontier research. the article complicates the us understanding of the ai race by suggesting that while beijing's industrial policy remains conservative, its defense sector perceives agi as an inevitability that demands urgent preparation.