“They have a much slower and more cautious approach to AI because the Chinese government sees it as a threat to internal political stability and control, if AI becomes too powerful,” said Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at the Washington-based think tank Defense Priorities.
That doesn’t mean that Chinese officials aren’t willing to talk seriously about regulation, Kavanagh said.
“They’ve already been talking about regulation internally, much more so than the U.S. side has,” she told reporters Thursday in a virtual briefing. “And new regulations that the two sides agree to would slow the U.S. down more than they would slow China down, because China’s behind and moving more slowly on purpose.”
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