In the first half of 2024, capital spending on AI infrastructure by the Chinese tech giants Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu doubled year-over-year to about $7 billion.
Marietje Schaake, International Policy Fellow, Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and former European Parliamentarian, co-hosts GZERO AI, our new weekly video series intended to help you keep up and make sense of the latest news on the AI revolution. In this episode, she explains the need to incorporate diverse and inclusive perspectives in formulating policies and regulations for artificial intelligence. Narrowing the focus primarily to the three major policy blocs—China, the US, and Europe—would overlook crucial opportunities to address risks and concerns unique to the global South.
The US and China compete on many fronts, and one of them is artificial intelligence. But China has a different set of values, which former Google CEO Eric Schmidts is not a big fan of — especially when those values shape the AI on apps his children use.