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Beijing’s denial of Huawei control bucks expert analysis
In The News
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s condemnation Monday of suggestions Beijing requires domestic tech companies to allow state access to data collected by their equipmen...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Trump to lay out an AI plan
In The News
In a move aimed squarely at China's swift rise in artificial intelligence, President Trump plans to sign an executive order Monday to strengthen the U.S.'s global position in ...
By Elsa B. Kania & Wendy R. Anderson
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On AI, Trump orders all hands on deck
In The News
After months of pushing China to retreat from its strategy to dominate the technologies of the future, President Trump today ordered U.S. agencies to prioritize keeping the U....
By Gregory C. Allen & Elsa B. Kania
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Ep. 37: Beyond South China Sea tensions, part one: The Tinderbox
This week on the program: We explore the U.S.-China relationship beginning with tensions in and around the South China Sea. This episode is broken up into three parts: ...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China's research in artificial intelligence 'far outranks' Huawei threat, expert says
In The News
Experts are warning of the threat posed by China's use of artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a survellience state, and say the risk of such authoritarian behaviour spread...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China must tread fine line as US fires latest salvo against Huawei in 'new Cold War'
In The News
The US charges against China's Huawei are the latest salvo in an escalating "new Cold War" that is developing between the two superpowers. In a move that ratchets up tensions...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Huawei CFO’s bail was set at $7.5 million and she will pay for her own surveillance
In The News
Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou, arrested in Canada on Dec. 1 at the request of the US on suspicion of violating sanctions on Iran, was granted bail of C$10 million ($7.5 million) i...
By Elsa B. Kania
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U.S. intelligence sounds the alarm on the quantum gap with China
In The News
For years, quantum computing, which leverages the difficult, and, to many, spooky science of quantum mechanics, has been a subject mostly of interest to the technical elite. Y...
By Elsa B. Kania
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To maintain tech edge, US seeks export controls on AI
In just two words, the phrase “artificial intelligence” captures a deep techno-utopian promise, the notion that through craftsmanship humans can create learning and thinking m...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China’s Beating the U.S. to Market on Combat Drones, By Copying U.S. Technology
In The News
The mockup of China's CH-7 combat drone unveiled at Zhuhai Airshow this week looks a lot like one the U.S. Navy was developing — until it dropped the project, allowing China t...
By Paul Scharre, Michael Horowitz & Elsa B. Kania
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Engineering Supersoldiers: Boost in Lethality May Come From Within
In The News
When Sgt. 1st Class Victor Medina received groundbreaking therapy in 2012 involving virtual reality and computer-generated puzzles to help recover from a brain injury sustaine...
By Andrew Herr & Elsa B. Kania
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Defense Intel Chief Worried About Chinese ‘Integration of Human and Machines’
In The News
The future of human performance is a research race, and the U.S. shouldn’t take its lead for granted, the DIA director says. The U.S. military’s top intelligence officer is in...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Made in China 2025: Xi Jinping's plan to turn China into the AI world leader
In The News
Eleven trillion renminbi: it's a number that's hard to comprehend. In Australian dollars that's about $2.41 trillion — far bigger than Australia's entire economy — and it's th...
By Elsa B. Kania
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It’s No Longer Just a Trade War Between the U.S. and China
In The News
The U.S. confrontation with China that has been ramping up over the past year due to heightened trade tensions, military showdowns, and diplomatic ill will escalated to new le...
By Elsa B. Kania
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'Slaughterbots': U.S., Russia lead fight to block 'killer robots' ban
In The News
In Geneva, it’s the big guy versus the little guy. And the big guy has robots on his side. More than two dozen nations are using a key United Nations meeting this week to push...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Why Silicon Valley Shouldn’t Work With the Pentagon
In The News
Is Silicon Valley going to war? In 2013, Amazon beat IBM for a contract to host the United States intelligence community’s data cloud. Microsoft now markets Azure Government S...
By Robert O. Work & Elsa B. Kania
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Why do the Chinese seem more willing to give up their privacy for security than Australians?
Nick Liu knows all too well about the massive troves of data being gathered and analysed by technology companies, so he held off using his phone to pay for foods as long as he...
By Elsa B. Kania
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Ex-Google Executive Opens a School for AI, with China's Help
WHEN CHINA’S GOVERNMENT said last summer it intends to surpass the US and lead the world in artificial intelligence by 2030, skeptics pointed to a major problem. Despite gobs ...
By Elsa B. Kania & Robert O. Work
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Huawei flourishes despite perennial hurdles in US
In The News
Huawei is the manifestation of everything the US fears and loathes about China: a high-tech giant, founded by a former army officer, that it believes has ties to the Communist...
By Elsa B. Kania
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China's Social Credit System seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behaviour
In The News
Chinese authorities claim they have banned more than 7 million people deemed "untrustworthy" from boarding flights, and nearly 3 million others from riding on high-speed train...
By Elsa B. Kania
