China looms large in the global landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) research.
Yang also demonstrated that authoritarian regimes around the world are particularly interested in AI.
Harvard economics professor David Yang said research shows that China is exporting huge amounts of artificial information (AI) technology, undermining its contribution to other frontier technology sectors.
Yang also demonstrated that authoritarian regimes around the world are particularly interested in AI.
“Of the 16 frontier technologies, AI is quite surprisingly the only sector where those with weak democracies and autocracies have a disproportionately high number of buyers.”
“Autocratic governments would like to be able to predict citizens’ whereabouts, thoughts and behaviors,” Yang said, “and AI is fundamentally a technology for prediction.”
This creates an alignment of purpose between AI technology and autocratic rulers, they argued, the Harvard Gazette reported.
Because AI relies heavily on data, and autocratic regimes have been known to amass vast troves of it, it benefits companies with contracts from the Chinese government, which use state data to bolster commercial projects. can do and use them.
China looms large in the global landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) research, development and policy making. Its talent pool, growing technical prowess and innovation, and national investment in science and technology have made it a leader in AI, said a Brookings research paper.
For more than two decades, China has been deeply embroiled in international networks of AI research and development (R&D): co-authoring papers with peers overseas, hosting US corporate AI labs, and expanding the frontiers of global AI research help to do For much of that period, these links and their implications were largely unexamined in the policy world. Instead, the nature of these connections was determined by the researchers, universities, and corporations that were making them.
But over the past five years, these links between China and global networks for research and development have come under scrutiny by governments as well as universities, companies and civil society, the paper said.
Four factors worked together to drive this revaluation, including the growing capabilities of AI and its effects on both economic competitiveness and national security; China’s unethical use of AI, including the deployment of AI tools for mass surveillance of its citizens, particularly the Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang but increasingly more widely; growing Chinese capabilities and ambitions in AI, making it a real competitor with the US in the field; The paper, written by Cameron F. Carey, Joshua P. Meltzer and Matt Sheehan, states that the policies by which the Chinese state bolstered those capabilities include state-directed investment and illegal knowledge transfers from abroad.
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