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America’s tech blind spot

Monday, December 2, 2024

America’s tech blind spot

AGI Senior Fellow, Angela Zhang, co-authored an article Project Syndicate, arguing that US tech policy under Trump's second term risks hindering true innovation.

While Trump's focus on deregulation and industrial policy aims to boost domestic tech and restrict China's access to American technology, it overlooks the vital cycle of innovation. By prioritizing commercialization and diffusion over the initial invention stage, and by simultaneously overregulating research while underregulating product safety and data privacy, the US risks hindering true technological advancement and ironically undermining its own competitiveness with China.

Read the full article here.

Author

Angela Zhang

Senior Fellow, Asia Global Institute

Angela Zhang

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