Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges

✍ Scribed by William C. Hannas, Huey-Meei Chang

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Series: Asian Security Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.

China’s rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap in the literature, this volume is fully documented, data-driven, and presented in a scholarly format suitable for citation and for supporting downstream research, while also remaining accessible to laypersons. It brings together 15 recognized international experts to present a full treatment of Chinese artificial intelligence. The volume contains chapters on state, commercial, and foreign sources of China’s AI power; China’s AI talent, scholarship, and global standing; the impact of AI on China’s development of cutting-edge disciplines; China’s use of AI in military, cyber, and surveillance applications; AI safety, threat mitigation, and the technology’s likely trajectory. The book ends with recommendations drawn from the authors’ interactions with policymakers and specialists worldwide, aimed at encouraging AI’s healthy development in China and preparing the rest of the world to engage with it.

This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, science and technology studies, security studies and international relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface
PART I: Foundations of Chinese AI power
1. State plans, research, and funding
2. China’s AI companies: Hybrid players
3. Foreign support, alliances, and technology transfer
PART II: China and the world
4. China’s quest for AI talent
5. Academic literature: Quantitative and qualitative analyses
6. The balance sheet: China’s AI advantages and challenges
PART III: Impact on cutting-edge disciplines
7. Chinese AI and neuroscience
8. Chinese AI and biology
9. China at the nexus of AI and quantum computing
PART IV: AI in the shadows
10. AI in the Chinese military
11. Cyber and influence operations
12. AI and the surveillance state
PART V: AI hazards and safety
13. Future paths and challenges
14. AI safeguards: Views inside and outside China
15. Measuring risk and monitoring development
Conclusion
Appendix: Glossary of terms
List of contributors
Index