How competitive tension drives the U.S.-China AI race
Top tech executives met with President Donald Trump this week to discuss the future of artificial intelligence amid growing concerns over AI models losing control. Trump said the technology is transforming the economy and that the U.S. cannot afford to lose its lead over China.
It’s useful to view the U.S.-China AI race through, in part, the lens of the Cold War, says Brookings Institution senior fellow Melanie Sisson.
“We were facing the Soviet Union, which was explicitly and overtly territorially and ideologically expansionist, amassing … massive numbers of very sophisticated nuclear weapons and delivery vehicles,” she told Compass Points host Nick Schifrin. “That’s competitive dynamics.”
“Whatever we want to say about the tensions or the trajectory of the U.S.-China relationship today,” she added, “the competitive pressures that there are, are not those.”
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