The AI Race Is Wide Open, If America Remains Open - MacroPolo

Much ink has been spilled on the artificial intelligence (AI) race between the United States and China, leading to a whole lot of hand-wringing on how America can maintain its edge. America ought to double down on what it's best at: importing foreign talent. That's because among the main building blocks of a competitive AI ecosystem--data, policy, companies, and hardware--talent is the one area in which the United States definitively leads over China. Let's take a closer look at where America stands in terms of AI talent globally and the foundation of its current advantage. One metric to gauge AI talent is the attendees of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, commonly referred to as NIPS within the industry.