Natalie Kittrow

From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow.

This is The Daily News.

President Trump is preparing to make a crucial trip to China this week to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

A key question hanging over that meeting is artificial intelligence and whether the global race in AI may be spinning out of control.

Today, my colleague Vivian Wong explains how China's approaching artificial intelligence differently from the United States and what that means about who's winning the global competition for AI dominance.

It's Monday, May 11th.

Vivian, we've come to you because you've been reporting on China for six years.

Is that right?

Yes.

Okay.

And your beat has essentially been AI of late.

And I think there is one main question that everyone is asking when it comes to the global AI race.

And that is, is China beating us?

Okay.

So what is that chosen path?

Talk to me about that.

You have to really love AI to like put on a Bane mask to talk to your kid.

I mean, I just can't totally imagine it, but that's commitment.

Okay, so when you say that China feels like it's doing pretty well given the path that it's taken on AI, what you mean by that is making people kind of fall in love a little bit with AI, it sounds like, and also making it so that AI is everywhere.

So it sounds like, in a sense, there may be quite a bit riding on AI from the Chinese government's perspective if it's being seen as a potential solution to all these really important problems.