China’s AI balancing act — beating the U.S. but keeping the tech from threatening Beijing’s rule

CNBC December 2, 2024
Arjun Kharpal

Key Points

– China is currently enacting a balancing act between pushing forward with artificial intelligence innovation while keeping control over the technology’s development.

– All eyes are on how artificial general intelligence (AGI), or AI that is smarter than humans, develops over the coming years and how China will approach the technology.

– Prominent AI scientist Max Tegmark the narrative of a geopolitical battle between the U.S. and China racing to build the smartest AI is a “suicide race.”

China’s race to develop smarter-than-human artificial intelligence may put it ahead of the U.S., but such ground-breaking technology could also risk lessening the stronghold that the ruling Communist Party has over the world’s second-largest economy.

That’s the view of prominent...

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