On Thursday’s CBS Mornings, correspondent Anna Coren traveled to Ulanqab in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia to showcase the country’s growing artificial intelligence industry and the lack of public opposition to it, but her report left out the obvious question of why there is no such opposition.
With the A.I. arms race between China and the U.S. a topic of heated debate, especially with Jensen Huang’s resignation as CEO of Nvidia, co-host Vladimir Duthiers happily introduced the segment by describing China as a country “where there is no public debate on A.I. data centers.” Rather than explore what that absence of debate might mean given the country’s one party dictatorship and lack of free speech, CBS portrayed China massive A.I. expansion as an economic success story.
Coren highlighted the “rugged terrain, wind turbines and electricity transmission towers” that bring power to the area’s A.I. ambitions alongside crops and livestock. After asking a local farmer whether the development affected his farming land, he replied, “No, not at all. The changes are good.”
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