The Ministry of Education of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has added 37 new undergraduate majors to the universities of China, that will be available for the fall enrolment. More than 25 percent are related to artificial intelligence (AI). Last December, Outlook Institute, one of the CCP’s think tanks, listed AI as one of the primary race tracks on which China would compete with the world.
On August 14, 2020, the U.S. Office of the President for Science and Technology (OSTP) released the report “FY 2022 Administration Research and Development Budget Priorities,” which identifies AI and quantum information science (QIS) as future critical industries and emphasizes that the development of these two professions is related to economic growth and national security.
