H-ISAC TLP White Report: The Convergence of AI and Genomics to Grow as Chinese and US National Security Priority

The AI race has emerged as the most important part of technology competition between the United States and China, and China is increasingly closing the gap with the United States and may eventually surpass it in some areas. The United States is leveraging its long-standing dominance in the software and hardware design industries to create the world’s leaders in AI development, including more commercially- and consumer-oriented products and companies, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude platforms, but the same strengths are being applied to genomic and healthcare data by large biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies, AI-focused genomic companies, universities and even large technology companies. Nonetheless, on the software and AI research side of the equation, China is closing in on the United States, if not on equal footing.

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