America’s efforts to curb China’s artificial intelligence (AI) advancements are likely to boomerang on itself, a top Chinese cyberspace official has warned, while calling for increased regional collaboration.
Sun Weimin, chief engineer at the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s primary web regulatory body, made the comments at the World Internet Conference Asia-Pacific Summit in Hong Kong on Monday.
“Attempts to contain China’s development in AI will ultimately only constrain [the US’] own progress,” she said.
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“The US has recently been wielding the tariff stick on a global scale – but what will be the ultimate outcome? … History suggests that high tariffs tend to disrupt global value chains for hi-tech products and hamper the pace of global innovation.”
China and the United States have become caught up in a fierce tit-for-tat tariff war following sweeping nation-specific duties imposed by US President Donald Trump in recent weeks.
