US and China should collaborate more to bring AI to healthcare

New article says that to take full advantage of deep-learning solutions in healthcare, the US and China should collaborate, not compete. In a new commentary article, titled'It Takes a Planet', Eric Topol, MD, of Scripps Research and Kai-Fu Li, PhD, CEO of the China-based tech investment firm Sinovation Ventures have argued for more collaboration between China and the US on artificial intelligence (AI) development. This comes in the wake of the US government ordering the AI company iCarbonX in China to divest its majority ownership stake in the Massachusetts-based company PatientsLikeMe. "Chinese academics and companies already have unfettered access to personal health data," they write. "To compete in AI health, US companies will need access to clinical data on a similar scale. How will that be possible if the current isolationist policy continues?"