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<\/p>\nOminously for copyright holders, he said that AI companies had to be able to use \u201cthat pool of knowledge\u201d without experiencing the complexity of contract negotiations.<\/p>\n
The administration\u2019s objective is to make America\u2019s AI sector and its technologies the global standards for AI, exporting the technologies to its allies.<\/p>\n
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Given how world-changing and disruptive AI might be, and the pace at which AI developments are occurring, the stakes in this contest for AI leadership are extremely high.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want the entire world to be running on American artificial intelligence stack. That is our cloud, our chips, our algorithms, all of that needs to be exported and packaged to the world so that we become the ecosystem of choice globally,\u201d the White House science and technology director, Michael Kratsios, told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s approach, or at least the approach it publicly stated last week at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, is very different.<\/p>\n
China\u2019s premier, Li Qiang, said AI innovation was being hampered by bottlenecks, like access to semiconductors, that could lead to AI becoming an \u201cexclusive game for a few countries and companies\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u201cCurrently, overall global AI governance is still fragmented. Countries have great differences, particularly in terms of areas such as regulatory concepts and institutional rules.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should strengthen coordination to form a global AI governance framework that has broad consensus, as soon as possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
China has proposed creating a new international organisation to develop AI, arguing that AI has risks that require nations to collaborate.<\/p>\n
Denied access by the US to the most advanced semiconductors, China has adopted an \u201copen source\u201d approach to AI, with its leading AI companies \u2013 companies like DeepSeek and Alibaba \u2013 making their large language models available to developers within and outside China as a strategy for fast-tracking a low-cost approach to developing AI and differentiating itself from Trump\u2019s America First approach.<\/p>\n
Beijing wants China, not the US, to influence international standards for AI and its AI companies to win a bigger proportion of the global AI market. It is placing a particular emphasis on the development of AI within the \u201cGlobal South\u201d group of loosely aligned countries that it has been working to bring within its sphere of influence.<\/p>\n
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Xi Jinping is taking a different approach to Trump. Credit: AP<\/p>\n
In the US, the race is on between the mega tech companies to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), or human-level artificial intelligence. In China, Xi Jinping appears more focused on AI applications, or usages with practical applications for industries.<\/p>\n
The two countries are therefore pursuing somewhat different AI goals, which might reflect the success of America\u2019s export controls in denying China access to the most advanced chips and chip-making equipment required to pursue AGI. It might also be that China doesn\u2019t believe AGI will be attainable within a reasonable timeframe.<\/p>\n
In Europe, as you\u2019d expect, the focus has been on heavily regulating AI, prohibiting some AI practices that manipulate behaviours or are exploitative: imposing rules on the use of AI in critical infrastructure, employment and other sectors regarded as high-risk and legislating in areas like the transparency of the data used for the models, the protection of copyright and the management of risks.<\/p>\n
The competition between the US and China in particular, and the differing nature of their strategies, might accelerate the development and deployment of AI, but it could also inflate the risks.<\/p>\n
In Australia, where there aren\u2019t yet any AI-specific regulations, the prevailing sentiment appears to be for \u201clight touch\u201d regulation, with safeguards.<\/p>\n
Trump has effectively abandoned the safeguards the Biden regime tried to erect around the development of AI, essentially adopting the laissez-faire approach that most of the big US technology companies (which contributed heavily to his presidential campaign) have been lobbying for.<\/p>\n
Having jettisoned Biden\u2019s guardrails, he\u2019s told the technology advisers in the administration that they have six months to come up with a new set of AI policies that support his plan to fast-track AI projects, boost US technology exports and expunge the \u201cwoke\u201d out from AI.<\/p>\n
He has said he will use every rule at his disposal to facilitate the building of AI infrastructure like data centres and chip-manufacturing plants and the energy infrastructure they require, and use the US export-Import Bank and Development Finance Corp to help spread US AI technologies to other countries.<\/p>\n
The US will do \u201cwhatever it takes to lead the world in artificial intelligence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Given that those developing AI systems have themselves warned that it poses risks, not just to individuals but humankind, Trump\u2019s deregulatory approach is itself risky.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the competition between the US and China in particular, and the differing nature of their strategies, might accelerate the development and deployment of AI, but it could also inflate the risks.<\/p>\n
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That could particularly be the case if one of the superpowers were to establish a clear lead in AI technologies and the other feared having to deal with the entrenched technological and geopolitical dominance of the winner of the race to become the global standard for AI.<\/p>\n
Given how world-changing and disruptive AI might be, and the pace at which AI developments are occurring, the stakes in this contest for AI leadership \u2013 not just for the US and China \u2013 are extremely high.<\/p>\n