Amid rising tensions over
artificial intelligence (AI)competition and global concerns about the technology, China appears to have an edge over the US and
European Union (EU)in trust to regulate AI among mostly middle-income countries.
A new Pew Research Centre report released on Thursday found that, on a median basis across 11 countries and two territories, more people trust China than the US or the EU to regulate AI effectively. China was not among the countries surveyed in the broader report.
“Middle-income countries tend to have more positive views of China than high-income countries,” Pew’s associate director of research Laura Silver told the South China Morning Post.
“We see that trust in a country to regulate AI and views of that country tend to be closely related.”