From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow-F. This is the daily.

President Trump is preparing to make a crucial trip to China this week to meet with Chinese

President Xi Jinping. A key question hanging over that meeting is artificial intelligence and whether the global

race in AI may be spinning out of control.

Today, my colleague Vivian Wong explains how China's approaching artificial intelligence

differently from the United States and what that means about who's winning the global competition

for AI dominance.

It's Monday, May 11th.

Vivian, we've come to you because you've been reporting on China for six years. Is that right?

Yes.

Okay. And your beat has essentially been AI of late. And I think there is one main question that everyone is asking when it comes to the global AI race. And that is, is China beating us?

I think that's a really hard question to answer because China and the United States are actually running very different races with different goals and different metrics of success.

And I think China is very confident that along its chosen path, it is doing very well.

Okay. So what is that chosen path? Talk to me about that.

From the beginning, China's strategy when it comes to AI has been putting it in people's hands,

putting it in factories, putting it everywhere throughout the economy.

It's this focus on real-world applications.

And that's really different from the way that I think Silicon Valley and a lot of American policymakers talk about AI, which is generally revolving around AGI, right? This idea that AI is building towards this super-powerful, superhuman intelligence. Whereas China and Chinese policymakers have always kind of talked about AI as this way towards making the economy run better.

So if you just walk around on the street in China, you are going to encounter different manifestations of AI everywhere.

There are driverless cars in a ton of Chinese cities. There are robots everywhere from restaurants to just patrolling the streets to definitely, of course, in factories.

And people have found. patrolling the streets to definitely, of course, in factories.

And people have found ways to use it in places that we might never have imagined.

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