Dragon AI:
Trump's Chinese Challenge
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🐲There is a short window for President Trump and Congress to reassert U.S. competitiveness on artificial intelligence (AI) and undercut China’s strategy before it cements its economic and geopolitical influence for a generation to come.
🐲Beijing and Washington are already in an AI race with the highest stakes for our economic and national security. Thankfully, innovation is in America’s strong suit.
🐲Open-source AI is how the United States can compete with China in both cost and capability. President Trump and his national security team, led by Rep. Mike Waltz and Senator Marco Rubio, can embrace the competitive advantages of open innovation so that America will unquestionably win the AI contest with Beijing.
🐲China is on pace to spend more than $1.4 trillion by 2030 in its strategy to become the world leader in AI and other emergent technologies. Additionally, it is releasing AI models that are already competitive with the best American models.
🐲In November, the Chinese company Alibaba released its latest AI model, “Qwen,” which beat the best U.S. models in several performance benchmarks. According to CNBC, Alibaba’s models have been downloaded 40 million times since their initial release last year.
🐲Open sourcing is an explicit part of China’s Global AI Governance Initiative. If China is allowed to set global AI standards, the CCP’s long history of censorship will be exported around the world.
🐲In one concerning example, Chinese generative AI chatbots censor topics by refusing to respond to questions about Tiananmen Square or falsely claiming that Taiwan is part of China.
🐲Recent administrations have tried and failed to keep advanced chips needed to develop powerful AI out of the hands of Chinese companies. Still, a committed adversary like China will always seek advantage where possible.
🐲Chinese companies have reportedly used U.S. cloud providers to get around bans on accessing chips and are hiring AI teams in the United States, in part to access these chips within our borders and evade controls.
🐲There are four core elements to a successful open-source AI strategy that President Trump and Congress can implement.
🐲First, the Trump administration should encourage federal agencies and the public sector to adopt freely available open-source models in their AI tools and products, or at least not prefer proprietary or closed models over open-source ones.
🐲Second, America must be prepared to push back on other countries that are seeking to punish American innovation through restrictions that would target U.S. models while protecting their domestic ones.
🐲Third, Congress must step up by pre-empting any state laws with federal policies or legislation so that the United States doesn’t end up with a patchwork of incompatible state laws that limit American innovation.
🐲This would stop future harmful, anti-innovation bills, like California’s SB1047, which was fortunately vetoed this Fall before it could be enacted.
🐲Fourth and finally, leaders in Washington should avoid placing export controls on generative AI, which would prevent U.S. companies from releasing open-source models.
U.S. restrictions on open-source models will only disadvantage the United States and its allies while doing nothing to slow China’s momentum.
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Trump's Chinese Challenge
🔤🅰️🔤🔤🔤
🐲There is a short window for President Trump and Congress to reassert U.S. competitiveness on artificial intelligence (AI) and undercut China’s strategy before it cements its economic and geopolitical influence for a generation to come.
🐲Beijing and Washington are already in an AI race with the highest stakes for our economic and national security. Thankfully, innovation is in America’s strong suit.
🐲Open-source AI is how the United States can compete with China in both cost and capability. President Trump and his national security team, led by Rep. Mike Waltz and Senator Marco Rubio, can embrace the competitive advantages of open innovation so that America will unquestionably win the AI contest with Beijing.
🐲China is on pace to spend more than $1.4 trillion by 2030 in its strategy to become the world leader in AI and other emergent technologies. Additionally, it is releasing AI models that are already competitive with the best American models.
🐲In November, the Chinese company Alibaba released its latest AI model, “Qwen,” which beat the best U.S. models in several performance benchmarks. According to CNBC, Alibaba’s models have been downloaded 40 million times since their initial release last year.
🐲Open sourcing is an explicit part of China’s Global AI Governance Initiative. If China is allowed to set global AI standards, the CCP’s long history of censorship will be exported around the world.
🐲In one concerning example, Chinese generative AI chatbots censor topics by refusing to respond to questions about Tiananmen Square or falsely claiming that Taiwan is part of China.
🐲Recent administrations have tried and failed to keep advanced chips needed to develop powerful AI out of the hands of Chinese companies. Still, a committed adversary like China will always seek advantage where possible.
🐲Chinese companies have reportedly used U.S. cloud providers to get around bans on accessing chips and are hiring AI teams in the United States, in part to access these chips within our borders and evade controls.
🐲There are four core elements to a successful open-source AI strategy that President Trump and Congress can implement.
🐲First, the Trump administration should encourage federal agencies and the public sector to adopt freely available open-source models in their AI tools and products, or at least not prefer proprietary or closed models over open-source ones.
🐲Second, America must be prepared to push back on other countries that are seeking to punish American innovation through restrictions that would target U.S. models while protecting their domestic ones.
🐲Third, Congress must step up by pre-empting any state laws with federal policies or legislation so that the United States doesn’t end up with a patchwork of incompatible state laws that limit American innovation.
🐲This would stop future harmful, anti-innovation bills, like California’s SB1047, which was fortunately vetoed this Fall before it could be enacted.
🐲Fourth and finally, leaders in Washington should avoid placing export controls on generative AI, which would prevent U.S. companies from releasing open-source models.
U.S. restrictions on open-source models will only disadvantage the United States and its allies while doing nothing to slow China’s momentum.
#DragonAI #AI #Trump #China
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