China urged to avoid ‘us or them’ split with US over AI governance
Voices in or around China's policy sphere are urging Beijing to resist framing AI governance as a binary choice between alignment with the United States and opposition to it, according to reporting by the South China Morning Post.
Why this matters: How the US and China divide up AI governance is not an abstract diplomatic question. The rules that emerge from that rivalry, or that cooperation, will shape what AI systems get built, who audits them, and what rights people have when they go wrong. A hard split means two incompatible frameworks, and the rest of the world gets squeezed in between. People in smaller countries, and ordinary users everywhere, end up governed by standards they had no hand in setting.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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