US policymakers could be alienating the Chinese AI researchers they want to attract
Staff, 2022-11-04 09:49:20,
In a keynote speech at an event in September, national security adviser Jake Sullivan portrayed the U.S.’s mission to recruit more tech talent, including researchers from China, as a race the country must win.
“China is doubling down on its STEM talent production and its STEM talent attraction, but attracting and retaining the world’s best STEM talent is an advantage that is the United States’ to lose, and we are determined not to lose it,” Sullivan said at the event held by the Special Competitive Studies Project, a group funded by former Google CEO and AI tech investor Eric Schmidt to promote U.S. government investment in AI and other emerging tech research and development.
As people inside the U.S. government and tech industry have pushed to retain and grow the number of AI researchers arriving from China, AI and other categories of tech built in China have come under fire by the U.S. government, U.S. tech leaders, and human rights groups, fomenting distrust of Chinese scientists and their research output in general.
Scientific researchers from China studying and working in the U.S. are bearing the brunt of the suspicion. A survey by the Asian American Scholar Forum of roughly 1,300 Chinese American scientific researchers in the U.S. who are involved in computer science and engineering, math, and other sciences, conducted between December 2021 and March 2022, found that 72% did not feel safe as an academic researcher, 61% had thought about leaving the U.S., and…
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