This translation is the result of collaboration between CSET and the DigiChina Project, based at the Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and a joint effort with New America.

Preserving pathways for high-skilled foreign talent critical to U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.

Winning the AI race does not guarantee any economic, social, or military benefit. Without a theory of victory mapping AI development and deployment to competitive advantage, and ultimately to beneficial outcomes like profit or military victory, AI might provide more impressive capability than tangible benefit. This report evaluates various types of advantages that winning the AI race might provide and describes six theories of victory for converting those advantages into worthwhile outcomes.

In science and technology, U.S. federal prize competitions are a way to promote innovation, advance knowledge, and solicit technological solutions to problems. In this report, the authors identify the unique advantages of such competitions over traditional R&D processes, and how these advantages might benefit artificial intelligence research.

See our original translation of a PRC document that describes six different Chinese talent recruitment plans.

See our translation of three different Chinese government programs designed to recruit foreign talent in 2020 in support of China’s economic development, particularly in tech fields.

The competition between the United States and China regarding artificial intelligence (AI) is entering a new phase and is increasingly focused on influencing the global AI ecosystem. Although national security is an important consideration in the U.S.-China AI rivalry, it represents only one dimension of a broader and nuanced competition.

Are great powers engaged in an artificial intelligence arms race? This issue brief explores the rhetorical framing of AI by analyzing more than 4,000 English-language articles over a seven-year period. Among its findings: a growing number of articles frame AI development as a competition, but articles using the competition frame represent a declining proportion of articles about AI.

AI technologies will likely alter great power competitions in foundational ways, changing both how nations create power and their motives for wielding it against one another. This paper is a first step toward thinking more expansively about AI & national power and seeking pragmatic insights for long-term U.S. competition with authoritarian governments.

CSET submitted this comment to the Office of Science and Technology Policy on updating the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan.