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Why AI is a risk to Communist China
Its advantages are not quite what they seem. Its disadvantages are profound
TL;DRAI
AI empowers individual autonomy at scale, threatening centralized control and turning it into a geopolitical test between rival systems. Tech leaders should factor geopolitics into AI decisions: vendor choice, model access, and compliance frameworks will increasingly split by region.
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