US Has Little to Fear from Chinese AI, For Now

Published on April 26, 2024

A child holds the hand of a Leju Robotics Co. humanoid robot at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday, July 7, 2023.

If American policymakers seem worried about China’s ability to catch up with the US on artificial intelligence, they probably shouldn’t be.

Earlier this month, the US government threatened an Abu Dhabi tech holding company called G42 with punitive measures if it didn’t divest Chinese technology from its systems, according to reporting by Bloomberg News. Microsoft Corp. went on to take a $1.5 billion stake in G42, solidifying Silicon Valley’s relationship with a critical region for funding AI at the behest of the US — and at the expense of China.

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