China’s Ministry of Commerce on October 16 proposed export controls on 23 artificial intelligence technologies. The proposed rules are part of a larger package covering 40 technologies in the AI, biomedicine, and photovoltaics sectors, prohibiting the exports of some and adding restrictions to others.
The potentially comprehensive Chinese rules look like Xi Jinping’s latest shot in the AI wars. As is often said, whichever country dominates AI dominates the century.
