China to become world's AI superpower as Europe hit by brain drain

China is due to become the world's AI research superpower as researchers in Europe are poached up by US technology giants, research has suggested. A study by Elsevier, the information analytics company, found that Chinese research output in artificial intelligence had increased by around two thirds between 2013 and 2017. The study's authors said that "China is bound to overtake Europe in publication output in AI in the near future, having already overtaken the United States in 2004". Beijing has made no secret of its plans to become a world leader in AI, despite fears that its research is being used to monitor its population and crack down on dissent. Elsevier's study found that Chinese research...