Artificial intelligence

Can China’s push for rapid AI development be reconciled with rising calls for safety guardrails?

The country was able to limit the impact of AI-generated deepfakes during its recent National Assembly elections. What can other countries learn from its experience?

Satya Nadella has pledged to expand the infrastructure needed to support the firm's AI services in the fast-growing region.

In order to take a global leadership role in AI regulations and innovation, the Kishida administration must formulate its own legal framework at home. 

Without careful regulations, AI will widen the already significant divide between Singaporean workers and the country's large population of migrant laborers.

Such partnerships risk further normalizing Beijing’s authoritarian model of digital governance and accelerating China’s efforts to standardize its AI policies and technologies globally. 

China has criticized the latest round of new rules by saying that it will “disrupt the international semiconductor market as well as cooperation among enterprises.” 

Washington and Beijing should focus their forthcoming AI dialogue on platforms that neither want to see in the hands of terrorist groups: those that can aid in the construction of biological and chemical weapons.

China has the desire, foundation, and expertise to work with the global society on mitigating catastrophic risks from advanced AI.

The potential for AI to bring about closer regional integration lies in its ability to address some of the traditional barriers to economic cooperation.

Insights from Jeff Alstott.

A partnership with Microsoft will trial the use of AI within the Australian Public Service, even while safety policies are still being developed.