China’s deepening civilian, military AI ties pose challenge to US, warns think tank

Beijing, China’s growing civilian defence AI ties, backed by hundreds of civilian companies and universities outside the traditional defence technology network, may pose a major challenge for the US, an American think tank warned.

The civilian institutions are playing an increasingly “consequential” role in the Chinese military’s AI-related procurement, the report released last Wednesday by the analysts at Georgetown University’s Centre for Security and Emerging Technology in Washington said.

The report gave multiple examples of these…