“Covid may accelerate this shift towards Chinese students and researchers staying home, which in turn accelerates the development of China’s AI research ecosystem.” Read more: “The acrimony of the last four years between the US and China, and some of the actions on student visas and green cards have really hurt the US reputation on this front,” he says. Trump’s hostile immigration position and escalating tensions between the US and China explain in part this rebalance of global AI talent, says Matt Sheehan, a fellow at US think tank MacroPolo. “If you cede leadership in AI, you cede leadership in the development and proliferation of AI products and services and that’s detrimental to the economy – if we want to accelerate digital transformation overall, the US needs to prioritise its investments in a cohesive way.”ĭata, insights and analysis delivered to you View all newsletters By The Tech Monitor team Sign up to our newsletters Sign up here “AI success overall is really interdependent with success of other technologies – IoT, 5G, quantum computing,” she says. But the US is at risk of ceding leadership to the Asian Tiger, with knock-on ramifications for the growth of its digital economy, says Hodan Omaar, an AI policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation. Historically, the US has been at the frontier of AI research, with the leading institutions and the top talent, while China has led on commercial deployment and data, according to research by think tank ITIF’s Center for Data Innovation. Meanwhile, China, which has made it clear that its goal is to dominate the global market for AI by 2030, is steadily gaining ground by doubling down on its investment in AI research. The National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI) concluded last week that the US government is a “long way from being ‘AI-ready’”, warning that, “for the first time since World War II, America’s technological predominance is under threat”. The US is losing ground to China in the race for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy, a new report has found.
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