China Dominates Global AI Network, Autocratic Govts Its Biggest Uers

Research shows China exporting huge amounts of artificial information (AI) technology, dwarfing its contributions in other frontier technology sectors, said Harvard Economics Professor David Yang. Yang also demonstrated that autocratic regimes around the world have a particular interest in AI. "AI quite startlingly is the only sector out of the 16 frontier technologies where there's disproportionately more buyers that are weak democracies and autocracies.” "Autocratic governments would like to be able to predict the whereabouts, thoughts, and behaviours of citizens,” Yang said, adding, "And AI is fundamentally a technology for prediction.” This creates an alignment of purpose between AI technology…