U.S.-China Technology Competition: AI, Biotechnology, Semiconductors, and Quantum
/Official Guests:
Melanie Hart, Senior Director of the Global China Hub, Atlantic Council
William Hannas, Lead Analyst at Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, Fellow at the Technology and National Security Program, Center or a New American Security
Jimmy Goodrich, Senior Adviser for Technology Analysis, RAND Corporation
ALI convened four experts for a robust conversation on U.S.- China competition in four technologies-- AI, Biotechnology, Semiconductors, and Quantum. While the U.S. maintains a narrow lead in each technology, that advantage is at risk as the U.S. unwinds decades of federal investment in research, partnership with universities, and limits high-skilled immigration. Meanwhile, China is rapidly expanding its investment in all of these technologies, focusing on both research and implementation. China is also combining technologies, like AI, biotech, and robotics, in ways that the U.S. is not.
In China's 15th 5-year plan, President Xi wrote that China must pursue “extreme measures” to innovate across all aspects of the supply chain, mandating that Chinese industry must see tangible success in these technologies over the next five years.
Historically, America's open innovation ecosystem has surpassed China's top-down strategy. However, given current cuts to R&D combined with limits on high-skilled immigration, U.S. technology leadership is at risk.
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