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

Will the world choose Washington’s market-driven approach or Beijing’s open-source model that aims to be accessible and safe? At the Suzhou Industrial Park Institute of Vocational Technology in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, trainees from Indonesia and Laos learn about the digital transformation and intelligent industrial automation, along with the Chinese perspective on AI. As the AI race intensifies, these two leading nations in the field are competing over whose approach will dominate globally. It is a trajectory that raises pertinent questions about the future of AI governance and the risks posed by the technology. Xi urged the world to adopt an inclusive approach, encouraging collaboration without rivalries in his Friday speech.

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