Why AI race with US is a ‘knockout game’ China cannot afford to lose

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China faces a critical AI competition with the US, where it must overhaul its innovation system to maintain technological sovereignty and security. A Chinese academic emphasizes the need for strong support of open-source AI to counter American market dominance.

China must fundamentally overhaul its innovation ecosystem or risk losing technological sovereignty and national security in an existential AI “knockout game” with the US, a Chinese academic has warned. Huang Ping, assistant dean of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)’s school of public policy, said the country must strongly back open-source artificial intelligence (AI) to counter costly, closed-source American models and their market dominance. China must also implement...