Chinese led AI-primacy would lead to global authoritarianism. Turns the K.
Bill Drexel and Hannah Kelley, 11-30-2023 ["Behind China’s Plans to Build AI for the World" Bill Drexel is an associate fellow at the Center for a New American Security, where he researches artificial intelligence, technology competition and national security. Hannah Kelley is a research associate at the Center for a New American Security, where she studies U.S. technology strategy and international technology cooperation. POLITICO, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/30/china-global-ai-plans-00129160]
This fall, the Western world has galvanized around a blitz of AI initiatives, statements and multilateral deals — not least the Biden administration’s executive order and the U.K.’s Bletchley declaration — all geared to setting global rules for a fast-moving, competitive and possibly dangerous new technology.
China is taking a different path, one that could give it a lead while the West talks. Rather than competing with the West to write the rules of the road for AI, Beijing is instead building the road itself, working with allies and client nations to construct Chinese-built AI ecosystems that could pose global risks if they take root and expand.
— More than around the world — from to to — are being transformed into Chinese-enhanced “safe cities” and “smart cities,” leveraging AI to turbocharge traffic, logistics and law enforcement.