US President Joe Biden’s US trade representative nominee, Katherine Tai (戴琪), on Monday said that she would work to fight a range of “unfair” Chinese trade and economic practices, and would seek to treat Chinese censorship as a trade barrier.
In written answers to senators’ questions following her confirmation hearing last week, Tai said that she would seek to use the enforcement consultation process in former US president Donald Trump’s “Phase 1” trade deal with China to ensure the protection of US intellectual property.
“I am open to exploring a wide range of options to address our long-standing problems with China’s unfair
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Calls for international, and particularly transatlantic, cooperation are growing.
In Europe, interest in strengthening “ethical” AI policy is particularly strong – including as a way of making Europe more attractive than other jurisdictions around the world.
Close cooperation between Europe and the US is not a given: Europe sees the US as its main competitor in AI; the US wants to join forces against China on AI, but European interest in such a front is weak.
The non-combat military realm may be a good area for transatlantic AI cooperation.
Introduction
A glance at the history of artificial intelligence (AI) shows that the field periodically goes through phases of development racing ahead and slowing down – often dubbed “AI springs” and “AI winters”. The world is currently several years into an AI spring, dominated by important advances in machine-learning technologies. In Europe, policymakers’ efforts to grapple with the rapid pace of technological development
European Commission woos US over AI agreement
By Adam Branson on 17/12/2020
AI: The European Commission is seeking an agreement with the US. Credit: Erich Westendarp/Pixabay
The president of the European Commission has announced that she is discussing an artificial intelligence (AI) agreement with counterparts in the US government, in a move that adds further complexity to multilateral cooperation on the subject.
In her acceptance speech at the World Leader for Peace and Security Award on Saturday, Ursula von der Leyen paid homage to the relationship between Europe and America and said that partnership was needed more than ever, not least in the digital world.
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