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China and AI: what the world can learn and what it should be wary of
China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030
While the US still leads in absolute terms, China appears to be making more rapid progress than either the US or the EU, and central and local government spending on AI in…
- Hessy Elliott
- The Conversation
The move has led – at least in the West – to warnings of a global AI arms race and concerns about the growing reach of China’s authoritarian surveillance state.
But treating China as a “villain” in this way is both overly simplistic and potentially costly.
While there are undoubtedly aspects of the…