07/19/2023 Richard Moore, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service: China benefits from sheer scale. AI in its current form requires colossal volumes of data. The more data you have, the more rapidly you can teach machine learning tools. China has added to its immense datasets at home by hoovering up others abroad. And the Chinese authorities are not hugely troubled by questions of personal privacy or individual data security. They are focused on controlling information and preventing inconvenient truths from being revealed.
