Understanding Chinese AI Governance: Domestic Roots and Global Implications

Matt Sheehan is a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research covers global technology issues with a focus on China. His research projects explore China’s artificial intelligence ecosystem, the future of Chinese technology policy, and the role of technology in China’s political economy. Matt is the author of The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for our Future (Counterpoint Press, 2019).

From 2010-2016 Matt lived and worked in China, including as the first China correspondent for the World Post. After returning from China, Matt worked as a fellow at the Paulson Institute’s think tank, MacroPolo, where he led research on Chinese technology issues. In 2018, he was selected as a finalist for the Young China Watcher of the Year award.

His writing has been published by the Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vice, and Wired. His research has been cited by numerous government agencies and media outlets, including the National Security Commission on AI, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Matt reads, writes, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

This program is part of our Topics in International Technology Management series on The Emerging Digital Economy in Context: US – Asia Cooperation and Competition which begins September 26, 2023 and continues weekly until December 2023. Seminars will be held Tuesdays, 4:30 PM – 5:50 PM.  We'll examine ways in which new digital technologies, business models, and data governance frameworks are addressing problems and opportunities at the interface between the digital economy and the external world, with special attention to new patterns of competition and cooperation between Asia and the U.S.

To attend by Zoom, please register at <https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsfu-vrTojEt0K8gkVqvxx0lGZwR8BF51i>. This will register you for the entire series and the same link will be used for all sessions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting series. You may cancel at anytime.

To attend in-person, please register over Eventbrite at <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/understanding-chinese-ai-governance-domestic-roots-and-global-implications-tickets-753636084817>.

**Please note, our guest speaker Matt Sheehan will be on Zoom, however, our moderator US-ATMC Director Dr. Richard Dasher will be in-person.