How China is using AI to rewire itself and the world

Our new paper reveals Beijing's AI plans home and abroad

Hello and welcome back to What China Wants

Today I’m writing about China and artificial intelligence. A few years ago I wrote how Google (well, its British subsidiary DeepMind) inadvertently kickstarted Beijing’s massive investment into AI. In short, its AlphaGo programme beat China’s best player of Go, which was a very real shock to Beijing. Not only wa…