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Why Are American Companies Helping China Build an Artificial Intelligence Authoritarian State?

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President Xi Jinping wants China to dominate artificial intelligence by 2030. But all it seems the Middle Kingdom's new AI entrepreneurs want to talk about ancient history. Take Kai-Fu Lee, for example. The founder of Face was born in Taiwan and emigrated to America when he was eleven. After earning a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in the 1980s, he worked his way up at Apple, Microsoft, and eventually, Google. In his book AI Superpowers, he likens Chinese entrepreneurs to "gladiators" fighting in a new techwar arena, where it's "kill or be killed."