What happens if China's AI goes rogue?
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What happens if China's AI goes rogue?

B1IntermediateOctober 1, 202615 min
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Donald Trump says the US is in an AI race against China and he doesn’t want regulation that would risk American dominance. But Beijing is taking a very different approach with the Chinese Communist Party exerting tight control over the sector. Today, Alvin Wang Graylin from Stanford’s Human-centered AI institute on what that means for which country is best place to stop AI going rogue. Featured: Alvin Wang Graylin, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society policy institute and a digital fellow at Stanford’s Human Centered AI Institute.

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Donald Trump says the US is in an AI race against China, and he doesn't want regulation that would risk American dominance. But Beijing is taking a very different approach, with the Communist Party exerting tight control over the sector.

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