Xi Takes an AI Masterclass - by Jordan Schneider

Inside the Politburo's AI Study Session

From an anon On April 25, observers of China’s AI scene got an important new statement of Xi Jinping’s views on AI in the form of remarks concluding a Politburo “study session” on AI led by Xi’an Jiaotong University professor Zheng Nanning. Couched in the turgid language of Partyspeak, the readout nevertheless merits close attention as one of precious few utterances direct from the General Secretary himself on AI. To read this new tea leaf, we need to understand some background on study sessions in general, and this one in particular. Politburo study sessions, or 集体学习 (literally,…

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