Letting Silicon Valley dictate US AI policy will benefit China

While humanoid robots entered the ring at the ring at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, a more conclusion was played just a few steps away. Chinese authorities announced plans for a new Global Government Organization – World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), which aims to set international standards and norms around artificial intelligence. The movement, which was framed as an offer to prevent monopolies and promotes inclusiveness, was also open along Washington’s bow: China is not only competing in the AI, a statement that it wants to describe its rules and global architecture.

The same week, the United States were released OWN SPECIAL VISION: Winning the race: America’s ACI Action Plan. The plan leading by Ai Czar David Sacks summarizes a comprehensive, three -volume strategy that focuses on accelerating innovation, infrastructure and pioneering international AI diplomacy. A good start – a solid and ambitious document – but it still reflects a disintegrated and irregular approach.

What is clear is that the global AI leadership race will be won not only by the developers of the most powerful models, but also by those who can deploy when they are most important. China’s practical, implementation first approach-Darım, logistics, education, public health and other public services to improve open-source artificial intelligence-makes the model especially for countries looking for early, visible gains. Huawei’s compact “Boxes AI” systems, including power grids and smart city platforms, including public service and digital infrastructure exports, including, enables even low -source nations such as Kenya, Thailand and Egypt to scaling AI practices without the need for expensive hypershold data centers.

To be open, China’s approach is not risk -free for users. AI systems usually come with surveillance tools, opaque financing and long -term strategic addictions. However, for many global southern countries, these are acceptable compromises for concrete benefits. Beijing welcomes increasing AI access request at cost, scale and speed. In doing so, it transforms AI access to a powerful soft power tool that fuses with technological exports on digital norms, governance preferences and strategic harmony.

In contrast, the US approach is extremely fixed to the commercial interests of the Silicon Valley. American companies continue to lead the basic models and productive artificial intelligence, but strategy often cannot associate technological excellence with the effect of global distribution or development. Without an accessible, adaptable model that serves different needs, the US is at risk of directing the AI border to China by default.

Now, with “winning the AI Action Plan”, it can begin to change even with its flaws. Columns-Innovation, Infrastructure and Diplomacy-Washington’s AI leadership is demanding more than the latest research. It requires reliable systems, reliable rules and reliable partnerships.

President Trump’s high -profile visit to the Middle East in May reflected this increasing awareness. The Gulf states promised to import 500,000 NVIDIA chips annually and build new AI data campuses in the UAE. While these agreements are largely commercial and defense -oriented, they emphasize that they accept the geopolitical pile of artificial intelligence, especially in the regions where China moves rapidly to shape the land.

The opening in South Korea, Incheon in APEC Digital and AI, US officials took further stepTo participate in responsible AI standards, across border data management and inclusive digital development to its regional colleagues to discuss. The scope showed the desire to interact with multilateral arena, which is modest but significant in the signal.

However, more participation is required. Once the field of technical consensus, international standard organs have become quietly battlefields, where the norms related to everything from algorithmic transparency to face recognition are objected. China has rapidly moved to bury the preferred frames, language and values in these technical environments. If Washington does not have or remains reactive, he is at risk of taking over a global AI order built on another person’s plan.

The private sector is also starting to respond. This week, Openai shook the first real open model from its registered stance and shook a fine head for global demand for transparent, privatizable and adaptable AI systems. The title was security. The subtext was the competitiveness: the need for more and more closely to the rest of the world.

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None of these actions will be important without infrastructure to support them. AI works not only in calculation and capital, but also in electricity, water and tape width. The education of large models can attract tremendous energy and consume millions of gallon drinking water. For countries facing climate stress and infrastructure restrictions, these demands are not only high, but they are prohibited. They will determine who realisticly adopt AI and who is left behind.

China positions itself to answer this call. From East Africa to Southeast Asia, Beijing helps countries to think differently about artificial intelligence access, re -frame artificial intelligence as a benefit, to be buried in national systems and to shape political harmony in the process.

Beijing’s model appeals to the countries that follow the “sovereign AI”, the desire to create national control on algorithms, data flows and digital infrastructure. With flexible, packaged solutions, China offers governments not only access to AI, but also how it is deployed and managed. On the contrary, Washington did not express a compelling response not only in the Silicon Valley, but for the nations that want AI under their own conditions.

Washington and Silicon Valley should understand that winning the AI race means more than winning at home. The competition is global and the global test is not first reaching artificial general intelligence (AGI). Not just a small number, but more and more about who surrenders AI for many people.

Most of the world will not judge the US with its breakthroughs in autonomous reasoning. They will decide whether their systems solve real problems – health, education, transportation, climate – and they will do it appropriately, reliably and evenly. This is the real arena of AI effect. The next decade will reveal not only who leads the leadership in AI, but also the world gains confidence to lead it.

–With Dewardric McNealGeneral Manager and Senior Policy Analyst and CNBC participant at LongView Global