From Funding to Foundries: How China Builds AI Power

On May 7, at the AI+ Expo hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), the Institute for Security and Technology (IST) convened a panel on one of the most consequential questions shaping technology and national security today: how is China building AI power, and what does the United States still misunderstand about the systems and actors driving it? First, in a firestarter briefing, IST’s Jennifer Tang and Fatima Faisal Khan discussed IST’s past, current, and future work on U.S.-China technological and geopolitical competition. Then, in a panel discussion moderated by IST Chief Trust Officer Steven M. Kelly, expert China watchers discussed the state of China’s AI ecosystem. Panelists included: Ryan Fedasiuk, Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Samm Sacks, Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale University Sunny Cheung, Research Fellow, The Jamestown Foundation Jost Wübbeke, Managing Partner, Sinolytics For more information: https://securityandtechnology.org/eve... Video credit: Schmidt Special Competitive Studies Project, LLC