Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics: National Strategy, Security and Authoritarian Governance

ISBN-13: 9789811907210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 140 str.

Jinghan Zeng

Recenzje

"Its goal - which it meets successfully - is to establish a fundamental set of parameters and paradoxes to study, in order to structure the major academic debate on AI in China that is sure to flourish in the coming years." (Rogier Creemers, The China Quarterly, March 23, 2023)
"Jinghan Zeng has produced an engaging and rich account of China's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy that is of interest to different audiences across International Relations (IR). Zeng engages with both IR and area studies work on the subject-matter, bridging the gap between these fields. ... The author has written a highly readable and important overview of the still small but growing literature on China's AI strategy that will benefit scholars in technology and cyberspace studies, China studies ... ." (Theo Westphal and Ruoxi Wang, International Affairs, Vol. 99 (1), 2023)

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 AI and Authoritarian Governance.- Chapter 3 Securitization of AI.- Chapter 4 China’s AI politics: Top-down vs Bottom-up.- Chapter 5 Concluding Remarks.

O autorze

Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University. His research focuses on China’s domestic and international politics. He is the author of Slogan Politics: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Concepts (2020) and The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). He is also the co-editor of One Belt, One Road, One Story?: Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021).

Blurb

This book provides the first book-lengthy study focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics, in line with China’s open ambition of becoming an AI superpower by 2030. China’s unique domestic politics has developed distinct characteristics for its AI approach. By analysing national strategy, security and governance aspects of AI in China, this book argues that China’s AI approach is sophisticated and multifaceted, and it has brought about both considerable benefits and challenges to China. The book suggests that a more accurate understanding of AI with Chinese characteristics is essential in order to inform the debate regarding what lessons can be learnt from China’s AI approach and how to respond to China’s rise as the AI leader, if not superpower.

 

Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University. His research focuses on China’s domestic and international politics. He is the author of Slogan Politics: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Concepts (2020) and The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). He is also the co-editor of One Belt, One Road, One Story?: Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021).