What a visit to China’s AI labs reveals about the battle for global soft power
Inside the exhibition hall of a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence research institute, an ink-wash map covered an entire wall, immediately drawing your attention. It was a cartography of AI: chipmakers were rendered as mountains on islands and algorithms as jagged mountain ranges, while questions of privacy, fairness and machine consciousness drifted at the edges like uncharted islands. Foreign guests and I leaned in, tracing the brushstrokes. “Why is Huawei’s chip placed right at the...
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Published: 1 August 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Bias & fairness · Privacy
Retrieved: 2 August 2026
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