... scientists and companies in both China and the west have become interwoven. Large numbers of young Chinese study and work in related disciplines in Europe and America. As many as 25 per cent of graduate students in science, technology, engineering and maths in the US are Chinese citizens, according to an estimate from the Pentagon. Western technology companies are heavily invested in China and Chinese firms have been a growing source of funding for AI start-ups in Silicon Valley.
... “The entanglement in AI creates a dual-use dilemma,” says Elsa Kania, a fellow at the Centre for a New American Security. “Our open and liberal societies facilitate the development of AI, but the Chinese state’s single-minded pursuit of these technologies puts this same openness and freedom at risk.”
... role of private companies means that industry “is moving centre stage in geopolitics”, says Su Tzu-yun, a senior official at the Institute for National Defence and Security Research, a think-tank backed by Taiwan’s defence ministry and National Security Council.
...“So far, their main interests appear to be in harnessing AI for command and control, and to use augmented and virtual reality to make exercises more real — an important feature for a military that has essentially not fought since the Vietnam war,” says Elsa Kania, a fellow at the Washington-based Centre for a New American Security.
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