The Chinese communist regime issued more than 2,800 military contracts for artificial intelligence-related goods and services over a two-year period, a new report has found.
Notably, a majority of the entities that received two or more such contracts were so-called “non-traditional vendors,” organizations with no overt ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The report, published in early September by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology think tank, found that “an emerging class of firms and universities… with no self-reported state ownership ties” were accelerating the CCP’s military and commercial AI development.
The report compiled a data set of 2,857 award notices for AI-related contracts by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military wing of the CCP, issued from January 2023 to December 2024….