US chases AGI dominance while China, EU and ASEAN treat AI as public infrastructure
BubblyExtent1693 · reddit · 2026-10-27
A comparative essay arguing the real global AI schism is philosophical, not about compute or chip controls. The US is the only major actor explicitly targeting AGI, with the administration's "Superior Intelligence" framing encoding hierarchy and zero-sum competition — AI as a wielded entity, not infrastructure. China, the ASEAN bloc and the EU each treat AI as a collectivist, public-good technology aimed at narrow, societally embedded applications. The author contends China is misread as a state-directed mirror of Silicon Valley, and that the language each camp uses reveals civilisational-level disagreement about what AI should become.
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