China’s rise as a global AI power poses serious challenges to Vance’s bold vision

Chinese companies under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party are quietly wiring digital authoritarianism into the Western tech stack.

Despite this threat, some Western governments and tech giants are pursuing ideological agendas in the form of “AI safety” that risk ceding moral and technological high ground to China in the AI race.

If Western AI firms, at the behest of Western governments, choose to censor their models to suit political sensibilities, they may very well be sacrificing a critical advantage over CCP -backed rivals. The freedom to build AI that tells the truth. To beat China in the AI race, our governments and our companies must reject woke AI in all its forms. The fate of Western democracy may well depend on it. Daniel Cochrane is a senior research associate for the Tech Policy Center at The Heritage Foundation . Original article link.