China wants to become the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030 and therefore pumps huge amounts of funding into AI research and development. But how realistic are China’s ambitions? Its facial recognition technology already ranks among the world’s best, says Jeffrey Ding of the Future of Humanity Institute University of Oxford, but in many other areas China still lags behind the U.S.
This podcast was first published by the MERICS, a YCW Partner and one of the largest international think tanks for policy-oriented research on contemporary China.
Partner Post – Podcast Interview: Jeffrey Ding, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford


