G7 AI partnership seeks standards to support shared values, counter China's influence

In terms of AI productivity, 2019 would be hard to beat. Twenty-nine new and updated political schemes were announced for domesticating artificial intelligence, according to the United Nations. But one announcement this year -- the formation of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence -- obviates or overshadows most of the AI development plans published since 2016, when China pushed the world's first statement out. The global partnership, or GPAI, solidified last month. And it only happened after Western democracies (notably the United States) realized that all the go-it-alone development and control approaches in the world will not stop China from dominating the technology all by itself.