Artificial intelligence arms race

Artificial intelligence arms race
Artificial intelligence arms race
Part of the Artificial Intelligence Cold War, Second Cold War
Date
Date	2010 – Present; (15 years, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Location	United States, China & Earth
Status	Ongoing; The USA and China initiate significant investments in AI research and development.; Both countries build advanced AI infrastructure and workforce.; The United States leads in AI innovation through major tech companies.; China's government-backed initiatives boost AI progress with state support.; Rising global competition for AI supremacy; Growing concerns over ethics, data privacy, and AI regulation; Existential risk from artificial intelligence;
Main Competitors
	United States United States China China Other Major Competitors India, Russia, Israel,; Singapore, Japan, South Korea,; Germany, United Kingdom,; France, Canada
Key Figures
	Donald Trump; Joe Biden; Barack Obama; Elon Musk; Sundar Pichai; Jensen Huang; Sam Altman; Satya Nadella; Andy Jassy; Tim Cook; Mark Zuckerberg Xi Jinping; Hu Jintao; Jiang Zemin; Jack Ma; Robin Li; Liang Wenfeng; Pony Ma; Daniel Zhang; Ren Zhengfei; Tan Ruisong; Lei Jun Other Major Key figures Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin,; Benjamin Netanyahu, Lawrence Wong,; Shigeru Ishiba, Yoon Suk Yeol,; Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer,; Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau
Major AI Initiatives
	United States; Google; Nvidia; OpenAI; Microsoft; Amazon; Apple; Tesla; Meta; IBM; Intel; Texas Instruments; National Instruments; Lockheed Martin China; Baidu; DeepSeek; Tencent; Alibaba; Huawei; SenseTime; iFlytek; Alpha; Xiaomi; Megvii; YMTC; Silan; AVIC Other Major AI Initiatives DRDO, Tata, Reliance, HAL,; Yandex, Sukhoi, Mikoyan,; Mobileye, IAI, Mitsubishi,; Samsung, Kakao, KAI, Siemens,; BAE, Mistral AI, Dassault
Investments
	Est. $300 billion; (USA, over the last decade) Est. $200 billion (China, over the last decade)
Ethical concerns in AI
	AI regulation concerns; Data privacy issues; AI bias and fairness China's Data Security Law Regulation in other countries DPDP Act 2023; Data Protection Act 2018; GDPR
	Potential for international regulation

A military artificial intelligence arms race is an arms race between two or more states to develop and deploy lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Since the mid-2010s, many analysts have noted the emergence of such an arms race between superpowers for better military AI,^[1]^[2] driven by increasing geopolitical and military tensions.

An AI arms race is sometimes placed in the context of an AI Cold War between the United States and China.^[3]

^ Geist, Edward Moore (2016-08-15). "It's already too late to stop the AI arms race—We must manage it instead". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 72 (5): 318–321. Bibcode:2016BuAtS..72e.318G. doi:10.1080/00963402.2016.1216672. ISSN 0096-3402. S2CID 151967826.
^ Maas, Matthijs M. (2019-02-06). "How viable is international arms control for military artificial intelligence? Three lessons from nuclear weapons". Contemporary Security Policy. 40 (3): 285–311. doi:10.1080/13523260.2019.1576464. ISSN 1352-3260. S2CID 159310223.
^ Champion, Marc (12 December 2019). "Digital Cold War". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

[Geist_318–321-1] Geist, Edward Moore (2016-08-15). "It's already too late to stop the AI arms race—We must manage it instead". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 72 (5): 318–321. Bibcode:2016BuAtS..72e.318G. doi:10.1080/00963402.2016.1216672. ISSN 0096-3402. S2CID 151967826.

[Maas_285–311-2] Maas, Matthijs M. (2019-02-06). "How viable is international arms control for military artificial intelligence? Three lessons from nuclear weapons". Contemporary Security Policy. 40 (3): 285–311. doi:10.1080/13523260.2019.1576464. ISSN 1352-3260. S2CID 159310223.

[3] Champion, Marc (12 December 2019). "Digital Cold War". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

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