China will thwart US ambitions for world artificial intelligence (AI) dominance, the vice-president of the Centre for China and Globalisation has stated, whereas warning that Washington’s military-focused technique was pushing in direction of “AI for evil”.
Addressing the Penang Peace Dialogue in Malaysia on Sunday, Victor Gao stated the US was “weaponising and militarising AI”, and integrating the know-how into programs starting from drones and ballistic missiles to on a regular basis software program and {hardware}.
This drive for hegemony posed a world threat, he argued.
The Centre for China and Globalisation, a Beijing-based non-governmental assume tank, is an influential establishment that gives analysis on worldwide commerce, world governance and China’s international relations.
“We should always work out a technique to free us up from this tried AI dominance,” Gao stated, contrasting China’s open-source growth to American closed-source methods.
“China won’t ever permit any nation on this world to attain AI dominance. That’s the reason China is so dedicated to push ahead AI management,” Gao stated.
