A Brief Examination of Chinese Government Expenditures on Artificial Intelligence R and D

Abstract

China has ambitions to become a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI). Accordingly, the Chinese government, at the central and local levels, has announced large planned expenditures to support AI activities. This, in turn, has led Western analysts to compare Chinese and U.S. expenditures on non-defense AI research. However, we are unaware of any persuasive discussion about whether such comparisons are credible, in light of uncertainties about the Chinese estimates. This document investigates publicly announced Chinese non-defense AI expenditures made through four funding mechanisms and assesses the comparability of each expenditure with U.S. Federal expenditures on non-defense AI research and development (R and D).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1122143

Entities

People

  • Gifford J. Wong
  • Irina Liu
  • Talla F. Babou
  • Thomas J. Colvin

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Autonomous Systems
  • China
  • Commerce
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Internet Of Things
  • Language
  • Local Governments
  • Machine Learning
  • National Governments
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Neural Networks
  • Reliability
  • Robotics
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy