China’s Confucian AI vs America’s oligarchic version

Nowadays in the United States, if you are a commencement speaker at a university graduation ceremony, you may want to avoid mentioning artificial intelligence (AI). Recent speakers at the University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona and Marquette University were all booed for touting AI. Students at the University of South Carolina and the University of Indianapolis protested their institutions’ partnership with AI firms. In contrast, speaking at Harvard, comedian Ronny Chieng was...