What's behind the huge rise of anti AI & pro China sentiment?

What's behind the huge rise of anti AI & pro China sentiment?

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The Tech Versatilist
756 Video Views·Jul 24, 2026  #ai #datacenters #china

In the past 10 months the posture in the US has shifted from very positive towards AI to completely against both AI and Datacenters, yet somehow in favor of them both in China. I attempt to dive into the potential reasons behind it.

Articles and Document read to create his video:

https://openai.com/index/prc-linked-influence-operations-ai-debates/

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/96b559fa-c165-4575-805d-e636909e2f78/June-2026-Threat-Report.pdf

https://cyberscoop.com/openai-china-influence-campaign-chatgpt/

https://www.eenews.net/articles/openai-says-china-launched-influence-campaign-to-shape-us-attitudes-on-ai-data-centers/

https://english.news.cn/20260717/893fe11097db460ea31b98f131e34ef0/c.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/china-ai-soft-power.html

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5897285/chinas-xi-calls-for-step-up-of-global-effort-in-ai-as-us-curbs-squeeze-chinas-tech-access

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/chinas-xi-jinping-launches-new-ai-alliance-what-is-it

https://thediplomat.com/2026/07/chinas-new-ai-club-the-world-artificial-intelligence-cooperation-organization/

https://www.insightsonindia.com/2026/07/18/the-world-artificial-intelligence-cooperation-organisation-waico/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/anthropic-alibaba-distillation-campaign.html

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-claims-that-chinas-alibaba-illicitly-distilled-its-models-from-april-to-june-2026-says-effort-involved-25-000-fake-accounts-and-28-8-million-exchanges-on-claude

https://medium.com/doublethinklab/the-rise-of-ai-in-prc-influence-operations-nine-takeaways-from-the-golaxy-documents-2d6617a753e5

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/national-security/wicked-problems-lab/golaxy/

https://therecord.media/spamouflage-china-accused-largest-covert-influence-operation-meta

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/pro-ccp-spamouflage-campaign-experiments-with-new-tactics-targeting-the-us/

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/04/04/china-ai-influence-elections-mtac-cybersecurity/

https://time.com/6963787/china-influence-operations-artificial-intelligence-cyber-threats-microsoft/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/11/senate-intelligence-chairman-seeks-federal-probe-chinese-ai-related/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/4/three-gop-congressmen-probe-foreign-efforts-block-us-data-center/

#ai #datacenters #china #protests #ccp