US-China AI rivalry becomes a battle to export competing tech governance visions

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The US-China rivalry in artificial intelligence is intensifying into a global competition of tech governance models. Both nations are exporting contrasting regulatory frameworks and funding strategies, exemplified by US-sponsored AI training programs in Burkina Faso.

The global race for artificial intelligence has transformed into a direct contest of governance, with the United States and China actively exporting rival models of technology, funding and regulation to the rest of the world. In the West African state of Burkina Faso, dozens of young people gather at a training centre in the capital, Ouagadougou, to learn the basics of digital technology and AI, in a US-sponsored effort to develop local digital skills based on the American tech ecosystem. At the...