The ongoing technology war, which prominently featured the United States’ export controls against China’s semiconductor industry, has taken an intriguing twist. The competition involves the cloud platforms used for artificial intelligence (AI) modeling. China’s domestic capabilities in cloud technology lie far behind U.S. firms. Its rising computing power broadly relies on easy access to U.S. … Read more
To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, governance of artificial intelligence (AI) has developed gradually, and then all at once. The second half of 2023 saw dizzying advances in AI governance. These rapid developments have shown that countries all around the world, despite geopolitical and cultural barriers, are coming together to face risks from AI. At the United … Read more
The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Jeff Alstott – founding director of the Center for Technology and Security Policy (TASP) and a professor of policy analysis at Pardee RAND Graduate School – is … Read more
Videos | Economy | East Asia From the AI Safety Summit to the Global AI Governance Initiative, how is China’s approach to AI shaping up? As artificial intelligence (AI) technology surges forward, governments around the world are scrambling to keep pace. The debate over how and why to regulate AI is heating up – and as a global leader … Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that potential risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) are challenges that countries should deal with together, remarks that come against the backdrop of China’s launching of a new global initiative on AI governance and a major international summit on AI risks. Xi’s prerecorded speech was broadcast at the opening … Read more
Advertisement In the ongoing chip war between the United States and China, American regulators have fired a new salvo with a fresh set of rules to tighten the October 2022 export control measures. The latest round of restrictions is aimed at plugging loopholes in the previous sanctions. The new rules target the chips that power … Read more
Advertisement As artificial intelligence (AI) barrels into every facet of life, its relentless momentum brings escalating perils. Differing attitudes toward governance have forked the policy roadmaps of two AI superpowers: China and the United States. With the most advanced AI capabilities and industries globally, both countries set influential norms that ripple worldwide. Their regulations carry … Read more
Advertisement The super-power rivalry between the United States, Russia, and China is intense, but nuclear capability means there is a strong incentive to avoid direct conflict. The Ukraine-Russian war is viewed in some quarters (Moscow) as a proxy conflict between NATO and Russia, but both are aware of strategic “red lines” that must not be … Read more
Blogs | Economy | East Asia The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has had a tough awakening that it needs to balance control and censorship with freedom for technological development. Advertisement China’s finalized rules for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), effective from August 15, are considerably less restrictive than a draft version that had circulated previously. This shows that authorities, … Read more
Advertisement During a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services last month, Senator Mike Rounds mentioned that many prominent AI experts had just called for a six-month pause on “giant” AI experiments, largely in reaction to the announcement of GPT-4 (the current basis for ChatGPT). But Rounds had drawn a different conclusion. “A … Read more