Industry consensus goes neg.
Kerry 24 – Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow for Governance Studies in the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institute, former Acting Secretary for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Cameron F. Kerry, “Small yards, big tents: How to build cooperation on critical international standards,” Brookings Institute, 03-11-2024, https://www.brookings.edu/articles/small-yards-big-tents-how-to-build-cooperation-on-critical-international-standards/
Our take-aways from stakeholders are corroborated in a study by Matt Sheehan of China’s role in SDOs, “What Washington Gets Wrong About China and Technical Standards.”88 In addition to similar interviews, this study included an analysis of filings with NIST in response to a request for comments on China’s activities on standards development and their influence on standards for emerging technologies. It found that “most industry commenters do not believe China is manipulating or breaking the rules of international SDOs.” Similarly, a review of telecommunications standards development by the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee reported “no empirical evidence that China or other governments have comprehensively co-opted the standards process to their own advantage.“ The inclusion of China as a participant in the U.K. AI Summit Safety and a signatory to the Bletchley Declaration and the initiation of U.S.-China government-to-government discussions on AI coming out of the Biden-Xi summit in November 2023 provides some signal that the Biden administration and allies do not see China’s role in AI as entirely adversarial.89