Google CEO Sundar Pichai Backs China As AI Leader, Urges US-China Collaboration

Sundar Pichai, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google, expressed the potential of China being at the forefront of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry. On November 16, Pichai was at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco, where he also emphasized the importance of the United States and Asian countries’ collaboration in innovation and regulation in the AI sector.

According to reports, at the stage of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference, Sundar Pichai shared his view about China leading the AI industry.

China will be the Vanguard of AI

Sundar Pichai believes that to progress in the AI sector, one needs the support of China, as it is making rapid progress in the AI industry with their innovations and support to AI startups. China has always been considered at the forefront of AI.  Earlier this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also praised China and said, China should play a key role in shaping the artificial intelligence regulations needed to ensure the safety of transformative new systems. Sam Altman, who has become the face of modern AI after the success of ChatGPT, is backing China to lead AI regulations.

Now, Alphabet’s CEO also said something similar saying, for long-term progress, China and the U.S. should be involved in talks with each other about something like AI.  He compared the need for global collaboration on AI safety to the importance of working together on climate change. If something goes wrong with AI technology in one country, it goes wrong for everyone on the internet, said Pichai.

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Pichai’s Statement After Joe Biden-Xi Jinping’s Bilateral Talks

It is to be noted, that Sundar Pichai’s statement came after the recent meeting of United States President Joe Biden with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of a summit in California. Besides bilateral talks, the major takeaway from the meeting was talks on artificial intelligence.

Meanwhile, speaking of China’s AI journey, in 2017, China announced its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030. With this aim, China appears to be making more rapid progress than either the U.S. or the E.U.

In addition, the recent announcement of the Chinese government’s spending on AI in China, which is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars is adding fuel to this ambition.

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