Between the United States and China, it is not just a commercial war that has been open for more than ten years, it is also a technological war. The Chinese State Council has announced the creation of a new plan, called “IA+”.
Replaces the previous one, which was called “Internet+” and focused on improving infrastructure connectivity to improve its production capabilities, explains the registration.
China wants to better regulate AI
With IA+, China continues in this path, but, nevertheless, it wants to adopt a cautious approach to improve the productivity of traditional jobs. The Chinese Council thus describes a custom approach, “a sector, a policy”, which will aim to avoid “blind and disorderly” development.
This prudence and the desire to structure China’s policy will also go through an active search for the risks of algorithmic discrimination and structural unemployment. “
The Chinese State Council denounces by approving “data poisoning” and the culture of secret that surrounds the algorithms and “hallucinations” of artificial intelligence models. Therefore, you want better training, but it is also better to monitor them, especially when they are used by emergency intervention systems.
This change is in line with disproportionate ambitions from China in terms of technological innovations. The country wishes to become an undisputed leader in all areas of technology by 2030. To do this, the government has increased its expenses by 10% in 2024. The objective is to invest more than the United States, which announced its part that wants to spend more than $ 300 billion in sector in 2026.
A technological battle against the United States
However, China could see that their plans are frustrated by Donald Trump’s policy. In the semiconductor sector, the US president imposes, thus AMD and NVIDIA, when the two companies sell their chips in the Chinese market, while Taiwan, the island on which the TSMC giant is located (which is located (which has the most advanced cast iron in the world to produce chips), it remains an important fixation point: China, therefore, you want to join its comment while the country wants to remain an independent nation.
To this is added the investment of the United States in Intel, TSMC rival, and especially 100% American. If the company is in a very poor financial posture, it is the only one that can respond to Chinese desires that wish not to leave room for their competitors.
Because becoming the only credible intermediary in terms of new technologies, China could avoid the next commercial wars, but also many criticisms of its human rights policy. An important soft power that the IA+ plan would strengthen even more.
Given China’s advances about artificial intelligence, Sam Altman, Chief of OpenAi, had expressed his concerns. At the beginning of the year, the sector had trembled after the arrival of Deepseek, which had put a chatgpt correction. If since then, China has arrived late, the threat remains present.
Source: BFM TV
