The competition between the United States and China for dominance in the artificial intelligence sector has taken a new form in recent years, and instead of being limited to the strength of the models and the chips that operate them, it now includes workers in this sector and its scientists.
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While the administration of US President Donald Trump has made it difficult for American companies to hire foreign researchers, the Chinese government is trying to make it easier to attract the best scientists around the world, whether they are Chinese or of other nationalities.
Over the past two years, China has opened its doors to international researchers in the field of artificial intelligence by introducing a visa system for scientists and offering attractive research grants.
In contrast, the Trump administration took a different approach in changing its visa system, which had allowed companies to attract talent from anywhere in the world.
Despite the facilities provided by the Chinese government, it still faces reluctance from foreigners to come to it, which hinders the country's ambitions to expand in the field of artificial intelligence.
To make matters worse for China’s ambitions, the number of Chinese scientists working in the United States has increased rather than decreased, according to a study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Damien Ma, who led the study, says that despite tensions between the United States and China, the number of scientists of Chinese origin working in the United States has increased by about 4 percentage points instead of decreasing compared to the past three years.
The study also noted that for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the United States, only one returned to China in a reverse brain drain.
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China to the United States, without considering the timing of their move or any other details related to this move.Therefore, Syracuse University sociology professor Ying Ma, who studies Asian students in the United States, believes that the study measures a delayed effect, since the researchers monitored by the study made the decision to move years ago.
She added that the danger for the United States lies in the slow erosion of its attractiveness in attracting talent, something that accumulates over decades and cannot be measured in a year or two.
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