American AI development ‘cannot separate itself from China’: Zheng Yongnian

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Zheng Yongnian, a Chinese policy adviser, warned that AI competition between the US and China should not escalate into a cold war and that full decoupling would be difficult. His comments came ahead of a summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump where AI is a critical discussion topic.

China and the United States must prevent their AI competition from escalating into a cold war, a top Chinese policy adviser has warned, while asserting that a complete decoupling would be difficult. The remarks from Zheng Yongnian, a leading political scientist and dean of the school of public policy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, come ahead of the Xi-Trump summit in Washington, where artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to be among the top items on the agenda. Chinese...