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Podcast | China’s AI+ Initiative – why the AI race is not the Manhattan Project

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Chinese policymakers are looking to diffuse AI into key industrial, commercial, and governance fields as deeply and quickly as possible. The overarching framework for their approach is captured in the AI+ plus initiative.

Officials published the overarching policy architecture for AI+ in late Augus...



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