The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent
Its warning was stark: artificial intelligence may drive an economic transformation “larger than the Industrial Revolution” compressed into a fraction of the time, and that we “must act now” to build the institutions to steer it.We agree with every word. Four in five signatories come from the United States and Canada, and the rest almost entirely from Europe. Not one name comes from China.The letter writes about a global economic transformation, but its signatory list suggests half the AI world does not exist.
- ▪Its warning was stark: artificial intelligence may drive an economic transformation “larger than the Industrial Revolution” compressed into a fraction of the time, and that we “must act now” to build the institutions to steer it.We agree wi
- ▪Four in five signatories come from the United States and Canada, and the rest almost entirely from Europe.
- ▪Not one name comes from China.The letter writes about a global economic transformation, but its signatory list suggests half the AI world does not exist.
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