Since the launch of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, AI has quickly changed how we work, how we learn, how we love, how we heal. It has also made a handful of companies such as Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI very powerful, and put the U.S. and China far ahead of every other country. What does this mean for everyone else? Is there a way to ensure a more equitable future?
Last week, Rest of World hosted an event titled “The Great AI Divide,” as part of the New York Tech Week. We asked three experts to weigh in on these questions: Sam Winter-Levy, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Aditya Vashistha, an assistant professor at Cornell University, where he leads the Cornell Global AI Initiative; and Peter Micek, general counsel and United Nations policy manager at digital rights group Access Now.
Here is a summary of the conversation, edited for brevity and clarity. You can also watch it here.
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Sam, is the AI race all but over for everyone? What happens when countries are subject to the whims of Washington and Beijing?
