Clement Ngu is a Brussels-based journalist and contributing writer for Nikkei Asia, covering EU-Asia relations, technology, trade, and geoeconomics. His work explores how global politics, digital policy, and economic power are shaping and being reshaped by AI development and deployment.
In this conversation we answer the ultimate question: What is the global AI race really about: technology, money, power, regulation, or the future of human society?
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During his visit to Digital Kallipolis, Clement explains that AI is not only a technology story, but also a geopolitics, supply-chain, standards, and power story, and that the U.S., China, and Europe operate within different ‘AI cultures’. The U.S. is more founder- and capital-driven; China has a coordinated state strategy and massive deployment capacity; and Europe has standards, rights, and regulatory integration, but could benefit from more courage and cooperation in the realm of AI, just as it did with aviation when creating Airbus. Watch and hear our entire conversation.
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