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# AI Cold War: Competing with China Could Backfire on Everyone
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-cold-war-competing-with-china-could-backfire-on-everyone/
- Published: 2025-01-20T11:26:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T05:25:15.000Z
- Description: What if the race to “beat China” in AI isn’t just short-sighted, but actively dangerous?
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: News, #seo-post-1

What if the race to “beat China” in [AI](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-strategy-speaker/) isn’t just short-sighted, but actively dangerous?

The US is intensifying its efforts to outpace China in artificial intelligence, introducing export restrictions to curb China’s access to advanced AI technologies. While intended to protect economic and military dominance, this zero-sum approach could lead to unintended consequences.

China is responding with heavy investments in self-reliance, innovating around sanctions, and advancing its own AI capabilities. Collaboration, not confrontation, has historically driven progress in AI, with nearly half of top researchers being born or educated in China.

Isolating nations will fragment AI systems, creating a dystopian patchwork of culturally biased models with little benefit for humanity as a whole.

The AI race with China risks creating global harm through division and mistrust. Can we shift from rivalry to collaboration and set a precedent for shared progress?

Read the full article on [Wired](https://www.wired.com/story/why-beating-china-in-ai-brings-its-own-risks/?ref=thedigitalspeaker.com).

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