Countries must move beyond seeing AI as a race, where one side must beat the other

Countries must move beyond seeing AI as a race, where one side must beat the other


Similarly, Chip War author Chris Miller argues that the U.S. chip export controls, such as the prohibition on the sale to China of the most advanced GPUs like the NVIDIA H100s, have “succeeded … [by] significantly slow[ing] the growth of China’s chipmaking capability”. Such arguments suggest that the two great powers are engaged in a two-player race—that one of them will win and the other will lose—and that the winner will obtain significant benefits at the expense of the loser. The “stag” in the U.S.-China AI game, therefore, lies in part with the mutual prevention of such mistakes and the gains from mutually advantageous commercial development of AI for the benefit of the wider public.

Author: Boris Babic, Brian Wong


Published at: 2026-01-04 00:00:00

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