China Looms Large Over AI Discussions at World Economic Forum

(Davos, Switzerland) — To ensure artificial intelligence (AI) is used for good, China, as a major force in the development of the technology, must be included in global discussions, policymakers and industry experts said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

AI would be a “force for bad” if it just became a tool in a “new geostrategic superpower race, with much of the energy put into weapons rather than things that could actually transform our daily lives,” said Jeremy Hunt, the U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, on a panel at the annual WEF meeting Thursday. “One of the ways to avoid that happening is by having a dialogue with countries like China over common ground.”