Understanding China's AI Strategy

Clues to Chinese Strategic Thinking on Artificial Intelligence and National Security. Read More

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How China Is Dominating Artificial Intelligence

China is widening their lead in AI globally by concentrating on a core set of best practices that energize entire industries to pilot and adopt AI for unique use cases. Read More

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China is about to overtake America in AI research

China will publish more of the most-cited 50 percent of papers than America for the first time this year. Read More

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China is catching up to the US in AI research — FAST

AT THE WORLD’S top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from twin cameras collected under varied conditions, such as sunny and poor weather. Artificial intelligence software proficient at that task could help the US tech giants with money-making projects such as autonomous cars or augmented reality. But the winner was an institution with very different interests and allegiances: China’s National University of Defense Technology, a top military academy of the People’s Liberation Army. Read More

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China's research in artificial intelligence 'far outranks' Huawei

Experts are warning of the threat posed by China’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a survellience state, and say the risk of such authoritarian behaviour spreading to other parts of the world is increasing. Read More

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Three charts show how China’s AI industry is propped up by three companies

More than half of the country’s major AI players have funding ties that lead back to Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. Read More

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China’s Digital Silk Road Is Looking More Like an Iron Curtain

The first billboard that greets passengers arriving at the airport in Lusaka, before Pepsi’s “Welcome to Zambia,” is an advertisement for Bank of China. Nearby, a Chinese company is building a sleek terminal. On the road into the capital city, near the office of Chinese telecom company ZTE Corp., another billboard features surveillance cameras made by Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. Read More

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Why Is China Investing Billions in Africa?

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China could surpass the US in artificial intelligence tech. Here’s how

Global GDP is set to increase by 14 percent because of AI, according to PwC. The tech’s deployment in the decade ahead will add $15.7 trillion to global GDP, with China predicted to take $7 trillion and North America $3.7 trillion, according to the multinational company. Read More

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Steve Buscemi + Jennifer Lawrence MASHUP

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