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US-China AI rivalry becomes a battle to export competing tech governance visions
Will the world choose Washington’s market-driven approach or Beijing’s open-source model that aims to be accessible and safe?
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The global race for artificial intelligence has transformed into a direct contest of governance, with the United States and China actively exporting rival models of technology, funding and regulation to the rest of the world.
In the West African state of Burkina Faso, dozens of young people gather at a training centre in the capital, Ouagadougou, to learn the basics of digital technology and AI, in a US-sponsored effort to develop local digital skills based on the American tech ecosystem.
At the Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, trainees from Indonesia and Laos learn about the digital transformation and intelligent industrial automation, along with the Chinese perspective on AI.
As the AI race intensifies, these two leading nations in the field are competing over whose approach will dominate globally. It is a trajectory that raises pertinent questions about the future of AI governance and the risks posed by the technology.
China’s push to address the global gaps in AI governance is in the spotlight at a high-level forum that opened in Shanghai on Friday with a personal appearance by President Xi Jinping. The four-day event concludes on Monday.
Xi urged the world to adopt an inclusive approach, encouraging collaboration without rivalries in his Friday speech.
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