I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar

Rest of World · 1 month ago · 10

Gordon Saft returned from a China trip with media, tech, policy, and finance leaders and found the AI and robotics future there to feel familiar despite differing U.S.-China narratives. The trip was made to assess conditions 18 months after DeepSeek’s launch reshaped open-source AI. He came back saying China’s emphasis on deploying AI into the physical world and discussing AI safety in state security contexts looked more similar to U.S. debates about risks and strategy than expected, with optimism and dynamism standing out as the main change.