ON THE GRAPEVINE
Tough on China, tough on poverty
Europe should restrict research cooperation with China in the sensitive field of AI. And in low-income countries, a lack of money isn’t the only problem facing researchers. Two quotes from the world of science.
“We should not complain that China is so strong, we should become stronger ourselves”.
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Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Germany’s Minister of Education and Research, believes that cooperation with China should be limited in certain areas of research, such as artificial intelligence, which is used in China for surveillance purposes.
“I have to predict follow-up experiments with great accuracy”.
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Kondwani Jambo is an immunologist in Malawi. He sees research as synonymous with guilt due to its enormous cost when his country faces a lack of resources. And even though he is not financially constrained, he faces various technical obstacles that hamper his research projects.
