One point I want to stress from my @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social colleagues' new report today on PLA AI procurement (cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...): Internal security is #1. Read about the AI systems China is buying to surveil its own population and to track its soldiers' activity online.

China’s Military AI Wish List | Center for Security and Emerging Technology

This report examines thousands of Chinese-language open-source requests for proposal (RFPs) published by the People’s Liberation Army between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024. The RFPs the autho...

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This report is a great rundown of where the Chinese AI-powered robotics industry is, and a reminder that China hasn't put all of its "future of AI" eggs into the LLM basket, as the U.S. basically has.

CSET@csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⭐️New Report⭐️ China is embracing “embodied AI”—artificial intelligence integrated with physical agents, such as robots and drones—both for commercial reasons and as a path to artificial general intelligence (AGI). Read more in our new analysis ⬇️ cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

There's a lot of good stuff in these Chinese 5-year plan spinoffs. But what's most interesting, I think, is what's not in there. Relative to the 5-year plans of yesteryear, there's very little about the need for China to acquire foreign technology. China's not playing catch-up so much anymore.

CSET@csetgeorgetown.bsky.social · 12mo ago

✨ New Translation Snapshot ✨ As the sun sets on China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), the question arises: Where is Chinese tech policy going in 2026? CSET’s translations of several 14th Five-Year Plan spinoff and follow-up plans provide clues: cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

Xi Jinping urged China to achieve superiority in AI, and to use AI to turbocharge China's scientific research across the board, in a rare AI-themed Politburo study session last Friday. My translation of it for @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social is here: cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

Chinese AI luminary Song-Chun Zhu, writing over two weeks ago, sounds like a prophet in cset.georgetown.edu/publication/... , rejecting the U.S. "big data + big compute + large models" approach to LLMs in favor of "algorithmic innovation."

Song-Chun Zhu: The Race to General Purpose Artificial Intelligence is not Merely About Technological Competition; Even More So, it is a Struggle to Control the Narrative | Center for Security and Emer...

Read out translation of an interview of Chinese AI expert Song-Chun Zhu, who argues that China’s AI industry should chart a different course than the current U.S. focus on data- and compute-heavy larg...

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2025 is shaping up to be a busy year here @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social for translations of Chinese export controls, AI standards, compute and chip strategies, and more! Watch for those and the rest of CSET's work on emerging technologies, China-related or not, here: bsky.app/starter-pack...

My favorite feature of @emergingtechobs.bsky.social 's brand-new repository of global AI governance and regulatory docs, AGORA? The China-focused "thematic collection" with the full text of 20 (and counting) Chinese AI governance regs & statements.

Emerging Technology Observatory@emergingtechobs.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀🏛️🚀 Introducing AGORA, ETO's new explorer for the AI governance landscape - with plain-English summaries, full text, and thematic tags for AI laws and policies around the world, from D.C. to Sacramento to Beijing 🌎 🗺️ agora.eto.tech

Ever wonder how to say "gate-all-around field-effect transistor" in Chinese? Who hasn't? (全包围栅极晶体管, of course!) My Chinese technical glossary is now live on CSET's emergingtechobs.bsky.social, and there are 16,000+ more translations of technical and specialized Chinese terms there to enjoy.

Emerging Technology Observatory@emergingtechobs.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉 We're excited to make our original Chinese-English glossary public! 🎉 15,000+ specialized terms from Chinese primary sources on technology and security, with expert translations and annotations by CSET's translation team.

China's retaliatory export controls on exports of rare earths to the United States, released today? I translated them for @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social already: cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

I signed up for Bluesky today! Did I choose the username "murphyben" because "benmurphy" was already taken? No! Quite the opposite. In deference to Chinese tradition, I'm listing my surname first, to honor my ancestors 🤥