The Myth of China's "AI Talent Pipeline" - by Zilan Qian
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Life inside the "human sea attack"
Zilan Qian is a program associate (research) at the Oxford China Policy Lab and holds a Master’s degree in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford. Trigger warning: the second half of this article explores suicide. “The US-China AI race is a race between Chinese — those in the US vs. those in China.” This joke has real-world references. It is no secret that Chinese engineers and researchers make up a meaningful percentage of the AI workforce in the US. According to the Paulson Institute’s Global AI Talent Tracker 2.0, by 2022, US institutions relied more on Chinese AI…
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