Artificial Intelligence Cold War

Artificial Intelligence Cold War
Automotive semiconductors
Date2018 – present
TypeTechnological and geopolitical great power competition
ThemeAI Arms Race, Second Cold War
CauseGeopolitical great power competition
Participants

The Artificial Intelligence Cold War (AI Cold War) is a narrative in which geopolitical tensions between the United States of America (USA) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) lead to a Second Cold War waged in the area of artificial intelligence technology rather than in the areas of nuclear capabilities or ideology. The context of the AI Cold War narrative is the AI arms race, which involves a build-up of military capabilities using AI technology by the US and China and the usage of increasingly advanced semiconductors which power those capabilities.