Inside China's mind on AI
China is waging a much different war for AI supremacy than the U.S.
Why it matters: China is obsessed with state control and adoption.
Chinese officials are laser-focused on deep, widespread AI domestic use they can monitor and steer at every level of their economy.
By contrast, America is obsessed with developing superior AI faster.
Period.
The U.S. thinking: The nation first to true super-intelligence wins everything.
China and the U.S. agree on three AI certainties: The country with the most powerful AI holds power, sets global standards, and wins the coming decades economically and militarily.
From there, the two nations are on different roads.
China's 15th Five-Year Plan , released in March, captures their strategy well.
AI appears 52 times, 5x more than a half-decade earlier.
Computing power gets its own full chapter.
Their goal is clear: Integrate AI across 90% of the economy by 2030.
America has nothing like this.
The bottom line: China doesn't get spooled up about white-collar job loss or humanity-ending rogue AI.
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