China’s AI Patents and Compensation for Patent Infringement

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在世界知识产权组织最新发布的生成式人工智能(generative artificial intelligence;GenAI)报告中,中国脱颖而出,因为与其他国家相比,中国在 2014 年至 2023 年期间发明的 GenAI 技术数量最多。此创新势头应受中国领导人欢迎,但也应促使他们思考一个关键问题:他们如何能协助保持甚至增强此势头,以确保中国的“新质生产力”继续推动该国的长期发展?最高人民法院最近判决的一起案件表明,中国正在制定强有力的法律解决方案等措施来应对这些挑战。Read more

China’s AI Patents and Compensation for Patent Infringement

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China stood out in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s latest report on generative artificial intelligence (“GenAI”) as, compared with other countries, China invented the largest number of GenAI technologies from 2014 to 2023. This momentum of innovation should be welcomed by Chinese leaders but should also prompt them to ponder a key question: how can they help to maintain and grow this momentum and ensure that China’s “new quality productive forces” will continue to drive the country’s long-term development? A case recently decided by the Supreme People’s Court shows that China is developing robust legal solutions to these challenges, among other tools.Read more

DeepSeek, AI Agriculture, and China’s Zhejiang Province

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甲骨文联合创始人拉里·埃里森一直努力通过其创业公司Sensei Farms,以人工智能应用来改变农业。他多年的努力并没有带来改变,这不禁令人想到其“改善人类的营养并同时保护世界的自然资源”的愿景是否能够实现。中国领导人也有类似的愿景。面对要用有限的耕地来养活该国14 亿人口的艰巨挑战,这些领导人感到有必要把愿景变为现实。为了克服这一挑战,中国领导层制定了发展人工智能农业的雄心勃勃目标,并且指定浙江省——深度求索(DeepSeek)和其他几家重要的人工智能公司的所在地——作为此项工作的先行者。Read more

DeepSeek, AI Agriculture, and China’s Zhejiang Province

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Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison’s struggle to transform agriculture with AI applications through his venture Sensei Farms may prompt one to wonder whether his vision to “improve human nutrition while preserving the world’s natural resources” can be realized. Chinese leaders share a similar vision. They feel compelled to turn this idea into reality because of the formidable challenge posed by the need to feed the country’s 1.4 billion people with the limited arable land available. To overcome this challenge, the Chinese leadership has set ambitious goals to develop agriculture utilizing AI and has designated Zhejiang Province—home to DeepSeek and a few other key AI companies—to lead the endeavor.Read more

Data as Property in the AI Era: How China Formulates Related Rules Incrementally

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中国国家主席习近平于 2 月中旬会见了中国创新型公司的创始人,展示了中国的“新质生产力”——词由习主席于 2023 年提出,旨在强调创新在推动中国长期发展中的作用。会议室里弥漫着合作气氛,但在幕后,这些公司和其他创新公司在许多方面都竞争激烈,其中包括争夺对作为人工智能时代宝贵财产的数据的使用。中国敏锐地意识到了规范数据使用的必要性,但挑战在于如何正确地做到这点。中国司法和行政部门采取的渐进措施,让我们看到了中国对此类规管的探索性方法。Read more

Data as Property in the AI Era: How China Formulates Related Rules Incrementally

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Chinese President XI Jinping’s mid-February meeting with founders of China’s innovative companies showcases the country’s “new quality productive forces”—a term coined by the president in 2023 to emphasize the role of innovation in driving the country’s long-term development. Despite the apparent collaboration prevailing in the meeting room, behind the scenes there is fierce competition among these and other innovative companies on many fronts, including the use of data, a valuable property in the era of artificial intelligence. China is acutely aware of the need to regulate the use of data, but the challenge is how to do so properly. Incremental steps taken by the judiciary and the executive in China provide a glimpse of the country’s exploratory approach to such regulation.Read more

Bolstering High-Tech Development: China’s “Supply” and “Demand” Solutions

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深度求索(DeepSeek)的异军突起,让世界意识到了中国的高科技实力。未来几年,中国将会继续加大力度,提升这些能力,培育高科技产业的发展。为此,中国需要确保高科技人才的持续供应,以及该国民众对高科技产品的强烈需求,但部分民众有限的数字和科学素养可能会削弱这种需求。针对这些问题,中国最近推出了新措施。Read more

Bolstering High-Tech Development: China’s “Supply” and “Demand” Solutions

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The sudden emergence of DeepSeek has awakened the world to China’s high-tech capabilities. In the coming years, the country is expected to continue strengthening its efforts to increase such capabilities and nurture the development of its high-tech industries. To this end, China needs to ensure a continuous supply of high-tech talent and a strong demand for high-tech products from its population, which includes segments with limited digital and scientific literacy that may have the opposite effect, i.e., weakening such demand. To address these needs, China recently introduced certain measures.Read more

The Moon, Artificial Intelligence, & U.S.-China Relations

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尽管中国被美国排除在该国的太空项目之外,但中国正在进行的从月球背面收集岩石和土壤的任务标志着中国太空探索的另一个里程碑。这一成就应该让美国政策制定者思考,采取类似的排除做法是否会有助或损害美国为了在中美人工智能竞赛中确保领先地位而付出的努力。更重要的是,鉴于人工智能操纵的潜在灾难性后果,我们需要一种更好的做法,专注于在全球范围内创造利益,而不是让情况演变成两个国际大国之间简单的输赢竞赛。Read more

The Moon, Artificial Intelligence, & U.S.-China Relations

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China’s ongoing mission to collect rocks and soil from the far side of the Moon marks another milestone in the country’s space exploration despite its exclusion from U.S. space projects. This accomplishment should make U.S. policymakers ponder whether adopting a similar exclusionary approach will help or hurt the United States’s efforts to secure the lead in the U.S.-China AI race. More importantly, the potential catastrophic consequences of AI manipulation demand a better approach that focuses on generating benefits at a global level, rather than devolving into a simple win-lose race between two international powers.Read more

China’s Top Court Frees “Several” Birds with One Key

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最高人民法院最近把中国法院系统自去年以来使用的一个鲜为人知的问答工具带到了聚光灯下。该工具的表现令人充满希望,是最高人民法院一石“几”鸟之举。该工具的影响深远,可以为中国发展辅助审判的人工智能奠定坚实的基础。Read more

China’s Top Court Frees “Several” Birds with One Key

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A little-known Q&A tool used within China’s court system since 2023 was recently brought to the spotlight. With its promising performance, the tool allows China’s highest court to “free several birds with one key”. The far-reaching impact of the tool also lays a solid foundation for China to develop AI-assisted adjudication.Read more

AI & Zambia Put Biden’s “No-Conflict Competition” with China to the Test

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美国总统乔·拜登在其国情咨文中声称,他“希望与中国竞争,而不是冲突”。距离下届美国总统选举还有不到八个月的时间,拜登总统需要证明他值得连任总统,以完成各项工作,包括巩固美国在两个关键领域的领导地位:(1)先进技术的开发和应用,以及(2)与对美国具有战略重要性的国家建立牢固的关系。两项最新事态发展使拜登总统与中国“无冲突地竞争”的计划经受考验。Read more

AI & Zambia Put Biden’s “No-Conflict Competition” with China to the Test

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In his State of the Union Address, President Joe Biden asserted that he “want[s] competition with China, not conflict”. With less than eight months before the next U.S. presidential election, President Biden needs to show that he deserves another presidential term to, among other tasks, solidify the country’s leadership in two critical areas: (1) the development and application of advanced technologies, and (2) the establishment of strong ties with foreign countries that are strategically important to the United States. Two recent developments are putting President Biden’s “no-conflict competition” with China to the test.Read more

In Brief

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上周五我向访问华盛顿特区的中国律师代表团发表关于人工智能法律工具的演讲。OpenAI近日的戏剧性变化让此预先计划好的演讲出乎意料地及时。OpenAI对首席执行官山姆·阿尔特曼(Sam Altman)的解雇和重新聘用引发了大家深入讨论这些工具所带来的机会和担忧。就中国而言,中国领导层可能会得出这样的结论:这些工具带来的机会大于担忧,并会采取一些可以直接帮助开发更可靠的人工智能法律工具的措施,而这些措施可间接为该国带来有效的法律改革。Read more

In Brief

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The OpenAI drama made my preplanned talk on AI legal tools delivered last Friday to a delegation of Chinese lawyers visiting Washington D.C. unexpectedly timely. The firing and re-hiring of CEO Sam Altman inspired in-depth discussions of opportunities and concerns related to these tools. In the case of China, the Chinese leadership may come to the conclusion that the opportunities presented by these tools outweigh the concerns and move to take steps that can directly help develop more reliable AI legal tools and indirectly bring about effective legal reforms in the country.Read more

In Brief

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早在人工智能聊天机器人出现之前,中国就优先发展人工智能,促使开创性立法的颁布,推动外商投资。运用类似的长期规划技巧,中国多年前就开始重振古丝绸之路东端西安的辉煌。采取的举措包括提高了该市解决法律纠纷的能力,以处理“一带一路”倡议所引起的法律纠纷。西安最近举办了中国–中亚峰会,这标志着该市有潜力再次促进该地区的经济发展。这些成就是相当了不起的。中国是如何走到这一步的,并且这可能会通向何方?Read more

In Brief

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Long before the emergence of AI chatbots, China had already prioritized the development of AI, resulting in the promulgation of pioneering legislation to boost foreign investment. Applying similar long-term planning skills, China began years ago to revive the glory of Xi’an, the eastern terminus of the ancient Silk Road, by enhancing the city’s capacity to resolve legal disputes arising from China’s current Belt and Road Initiative. Xi’an’s recent hosting of the China–Central Asia Summit has signaled the city’s potential to facilitate again the economic development in this region. These achievements are quite remarkable. How did China get here and where will this likely lead to? Read more