Why AI race with US is a ‘knockout game’ China cannot afford to lose

China must fundamentally overhaul its innovation ecosystem or risk losing its technological sovereignty and national security in an existential AI “knockout game” with the US, an academic based in Chinese tech hub Shenzhen has warned. Huang Ping, assistant dean of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)’s school of public policy, said the country must strongly back open-source artificial intelligence (AI) to counter costly, closed-source American models and their market dominance. China..