Executive Summary
The United States aims to maintain its supremacy in artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its great power competition with China. To this end, the US finds itself pulling the levers of its underlying technical, commercial, defense, political, and geopolitical forms of power. This manifests most prominently in the US’ export control regime on advanced computing technologies, allied cooperation and limitations therein, and China’s response amid its bid to achieve technological self-sufficiency.
However, a suitably comprehensive conception of AI supremacy eludes policymakers. Wranglings over whether AI competition can be…
