Talent

See our translation of a Ministry of Education plan issued in April 2018. The plan lays out objectives designed to significantly enhance China’s cadre of AI talent and its university AI curricula by 2030.

AI is getting caught up in politics

Axios
| November 2, 2019

Tarun Chhabra, Senior Fellow at CSET, spoke with Axios regarding the motivation behind China's technological drive. "[T]he Chinese Communist Party's whole technology worldview is driven...by the imperative on consolidation social control...," said Chhabra.

AI Talent Policy with Remco Zwetsloot

ChinAI
| September 24, 2019

CSET Nonresident Research Fellow Jeff Ding launched his new podcast, ChinaAI Pod, with an inaugural episode featuring CSET Research Fellow Remco Zwetsloot. “The key thing that draws talent to and keeps talent in the U.S.,” said Zwetsloot, “is the robustness of its AI ecosystem.”

As the artificial intelligence field becomes more developed globally, restrictive immigration policies threaten America’s ability to recruit and retain foreign AI talent, according to a new CSET report.