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Matt Sheehan: China's AI Strategy and Governance

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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What Do You Think About China's Ambitions in AI?

There's certainly different levels of interest and what is going on geopolitically. I think the fact that we've seen somewhat of, I guess you could think of it as a little bit of an arms race in terms of foundation models right after the US release GPT-3. The Communist Party of China always sees technology as a means to an ends. And so they don't even 10 years ago when the government was more hands off with technology. They're facing long-term problems in terms of how do you just govern a country of 1.4 billion people.

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