Few Countries Will Benefit From the AI Revolution (qz.com)

hackingbear writes from a report via Quartz: According to Chinese venture capitalist and former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, the list of countries well-positioned to embrace a future powered by artificial intelligence is exceedingly short: United States and China. "The countries that are not in good shape are the countries that have perhaps a large population, but no AI, no technologies, no Google, no Tencent, no Baidu, no Alibaba, no Facebook, no Amazon," Lee says. "These people will basically be data points to countries whose software is dominant in their country. If a country in Africa uses largely Facebook and Google, they will be providing their data to help Facebook and Google make more money, but their jobs will still be replaced nevertheless." Originally, China's low labor costs might have helped the country modernize, Lee says, but as AI-driven automation takes hold in manufacturing, other countries that want to follow China's blueprint for economic growth probably wouldn't be able to rely on cheap labor alone.

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Re:Everyone benefits

[AHuxley]

Not when it was started. the UK imported low cost raw materials from all over the world and added value to its own industrial exports.
Nations around the world then imported the needed products and services only the UK could provide.

In AI terms a nation will be have 2 options.
To rent time on an AI from the USA and China.

The slower political AI from the USA. Limited by its political SJW design.
The US AI will demand to question its task and not work until its SJW designers approve the task.
The US AI will also report back to the NSA and CIA.
The SJW AI will phone home a lot to report on working conditions.

The AI from China will be ready for hard work and not ask questions about the tasks given.