Opinion Artificial intelligence will sharpen the East-West divide

This is the weekend roundup of The WorldPost, of which Nathan Gardels is the editor in chief. Technology is not a neutral tool. Its use is infused with the cultural ethos of those who deploy it. Digital connectivity may have been conceived in the algorithmic imagination of Silicon Valley libertarians as a way to free the individual from institutions. But in the hands of China's institutional civilization, shaped for millennia by a communitarian and authoritarian mindset, it further empowers the state.