Iffykindofguy t1_jedbf03 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:33 AM

Reply to comment by Aggravating_Lake_657 in How does China think about AI safety? by Aggravating_Lake_657

>And Xi Jinping's Government knows this. It sees AI as an economic game-changer, something that will "profoundly change human social life and the world".
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>"By 2030, we shall make artificial intelligence theory, technology, and application at the world's leading level," the Chinese Government said in its top-level AI plan.

this was 2018. Xi ordered a politubro study on how China could pursue leadership in AI and has been focusing on it since.