Battlelines have been drawn for the next US-China stoush

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Battlelines have been drawn for the next US-China stoush

On Friday, Premier Li Keqiang detailed seven areas of “frontier” technology that China will pour resources into over the next five years: artificial intelligence; quantum computing; semiconductors; neuroscience and “brain-inspired computing; genetic research; genomic and biotechnology research; medical and health research and deep space, earth, sea and polar research.

Last week a three-year review of America’s artificial intelligence capabilities, chaired by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, was tabled. It advocated $US32 billion ($41.5 billion) of national funding for AI research over the next five years and the development of a coalition of like-minded nations to advance the development and use of AI, among a raft of other recommendations.