China is racing to create a merger of man and machine that would give the communist country a powerful new edge in the global competition over artificial intelligence.
Details on China’s work are shrouded in secrecy, but glimpses of the Chinese Communist Party’s research and development agenda have come into view via AI experts, Chinese government industry and strategy documents, and information provided by technologists recruited by China.
China’s efforts to create a cognitive merger between man and machine involve its brain-computer interface research that has non-therapeutic goals of “cognitive enhancement,” according to Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
Brain computer interfaces facilitate a direct link between the brain’s electrical signals and a device processing them to accomplish a task.
China is using invasive, minimally invasive and non-invasive BCIs to “augment human cognition and human-machine teaming by linking brains directly to computational resources,” according to a presentation on China’s