The Al race is getting serious on the global stage and it's time to pick a side

GLOBAL leaders have entered the AI race. Last week, the US President Donald Trump announced the US AI Action plan. He described it as, “An industrial revolution, an information revolution, and a renaissance—all at once.” A few days later China proposed a framework to govern AI development.

- WESLEY DIPHOKO

What these superpowers have said and plan about Al is important for all of us who will be affected by this technology. The US plan proposed the “cutting regulations to spur AI innovation and adoption, speeding up the buildout of AI data centers, exporting AI “full technology stacks” to US allies and partners, and ridding AI systems of what the White House calls “ideological bias”.

The plan makes it clear that the US will use AI to achieve its political goals. If the plan gets implemented it seems what gets said by AI will matter a lot. The plan has great focus on AI ideological bias.

On the other hand, China’s proposal suggests that it’s concerned about fragmentation in AI governance.