Talks for AI, data-sharing with China hand Beijing potentially vital tool for control, experts warn

The demo explains how AI is used in the app and its features. Cross-border data flow will play a vital role in shaping the international artificial intelligence landscape, but fear of balkanized technology shouldn't blind Western countries to China's long-standing ambitions and approach, experts argued. "No one wants a balkanized world, and China doesn't, either," Nate Picarsic, senior fellows focusing on China policy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital. "But we shouldn't be leaving them in the driver's seat and defining the terms of all of these new realms just in defense of the global system." "We have to be clear eyed about what they're trying to do, defend our interests, have teeth and guardrails to make sure that they're playing by the rules… otherwise, we end up in an AI and data environment that is defined by Chinese norms and standards, because that's what their ambition is," he added.