When the leaders of major US tech groups all echoed calls to "slow the pace" of artificial intelligence development, the underlying message targeted a specific and, in their view, uncontained threat: China.
China's goals to integrate AI into 90 per cent of the country's economy by 2030 are underpinned by its plans to achieve worldwide dominance in the sector.
China has spent decades perfecting the industry-supremacy playbook in areas like electric vehicles and solar panels, and AI is next on the agenda.
At the BRICS summit in early September, President Xi also proposed creating a community for open-source AI and letting countries with less developed technological sectors tap into China's expertise.
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China's goals to integrate AI into 90 per cent of the country's economy by 2030 are underpinned by its plans to achieve worldwide dominance in the sector.
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When the leaders of major US tech groups all echoed calls to "slow the pace" of artificial intelligence development, the underlying message targeted a specific and, in their view, uncontained threat: China.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a blunt assessment that a "Chinese lead in AI would pose great danger for the United States and the world" and urged Washington to restrict sales of tech to Beijing.
The warning was met by a forceful rejection from Beijing, which used state media to label the warnings as a "Cold War playbook" for the AI sector.
China's goals to integrate AI into 90 per cent of the country's economy by 2030 are underpinned by its plans to achieve worldwide dominance in the sector.
To do so, it wants to be self-enough and position itself as the world leader that other countries would have to rely on for their infrastructure and tech.
China has spent decades perfecting the industry-supremacy playbook in areas like electric vehicles and solar panels, and AI is next on the agenda.
Over recent months, Beijing officials have been more openly vocal about the risks surrounding the technology, including President Xi Jinping who warned AI "should always remain under human control".
At the BRICS summit in early September, President Xi also proposed creating a community for open-source AI and letting countries with less developed technological sectors tap into China's expertise.
A global AI conversation that's led by China also serves Beijing's political and diplomatic ambitions to rival the hegemony of the United States and win the AI race.
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