AI superpower ambitions take centre stage as Trump and Xi meet
The US and China are vying for AI supremacy while seeking to keep it under human control.
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"China very much sees it as a race, they very much think China should be the leading force in AI - they see AI as a power maximiser."
— Rebecca Arcesati , Academic
"AI isn't the moon landing."
— Lizzi Lee , Academic
Key People
Former president of the United States known for his aggressive economic policies.
Lizzi Lee is an analyst from the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Rebecca Arcesati is a researcher from the Mercator Institute for China Studies.
Chief executive officer of OpenAI.
Xi Jinping is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China.
Yang Zhilin is the co-founder of Moonshot, an AI company in China.
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