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2025: CAS Researchers on Accelerationism in the U.S. Technology Sector

Related on this translation blog: Links and notes added to the translation below. Ding Minglei and Shi Biao: New Trends of Accelerationism in the U.S. Technology Sector March 5, 2025 Authors:Ding Minglei, Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of Science and Technology … Continue reading

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2026: A PRC Perspective on AI Development vs. Safety in the USA and in the PRC

Related translations on this blog: Links and notes added to the translation below. Ji Weidong | Techno-Accelerationism and AI Governance: Reconsidering the China Model 季卫东丨科技加速主义与人工智能治理——对中国方案的重新认识 2026年02月15日 【作者】季卫东 Ji WeidongSenior Professor of Humanities, KoGuan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University;Director, China … Continue reading

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2025: PRC Scholars on Sino-US Trump 2.0 AI Rivalry

Related on this translation blog China and AI: The New Phase of AI Rivalry Between China and the US in the Trump 2.0 Era 特朗普2.0时期中美人工智能博弈的新阶段 December 25, 2025 by Lu Chuanying and Cai Yue Lu Chuanying 鲁传颖 is a Special … Continue reading

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2026: Thoughts on AI, DeepSeek, and Ideologically Suspect English Language Training Data as Poisonous Weeds

Just yesterday, thinking back to the Isaac Asimov story about a robot (probably the estimable Daneel) who ran for president of the USA because all the candidates were pretty bad news.  That got me to wondering and so I asked … Continue reading

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400/50 BCE:ChatGPT4o on “Feng Xuan Becomes a Retainer of Lord Mengchang” From Strategies of the Warring States

German Sinologist Prof. Dr. Michael Höckelmann shared a passage from the Zhanguo Ce 戰國策 Strategies of the Warring States on BlueSky today. “Feng Xuan Becomes a Retainer of Lord Mengchang” is a tale about a wise upwardly mobile official that … Continue reading

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2024 NPC Lecture: AI and China — History, Prospects, Challenges, Strategies and Legislation

Sun Ninghui’s lecture to the Standing Committee of the PRC National People’s Congress reflects Chinese hopes and concerns on AI, its applications, and its role in strengthening China in international commercial competition. Sun also refers to AI’s role as a … Continue reading

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2024: Chinese Explications of Sec Xi’s ‘New Quality Productivity/Productive Force’

The Chinese economy has hit some rough weather as the potential of neo-mercantilist export -led growth to drive economic growth has petered out. Even the global economy can become saturated with Chinese exports and the Martian market hasn’t been opened … Continue reading

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2023: China’s Robots and Robot Industry Development Plans

Today a cluster of translations about the robotics industry in China. Starting with research on robot arms/effectors, broadening out to look at the kind of robot projects Chinese graduate students are doing in robot competitions, and then to overviews of … Continue reading

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2023: ChatGPT3.5 Does the Diamond Sutra

Lately I have been finding ChatGPT doing a creditable job translating ancient Chinese texts including material from Mengzi/Mencius , Sun Zi‘s The Art of War and the first chapter of an ancient Chinese text on spying and intelligence — the … Continue reading

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2020: ‘Artificial Intelligence?’ No Says Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang in TV Appearance

Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang has been in the news lately because she will represent Taiwan at the December 2021 online Democracy Summit. Tang has a lot to say about so-called AI — he says there is no artificial intelligence … Continue reading

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