Any meaningful debate must include China, where the AI experiment is also running, at greater speed and scale and with different results
We agree with every word. Then we scanned the signatory list. Four in five signatories come from the United States and Canada, and the rest almost entirely from Europe. Not one name comes from China.
The letter writes about a global economic transformation, but its signatory list suggests half the AI world does not exist. China is home to roughly half of all frontier model development and has arguably the world’s fastest AI adoption. Trying to understand this transformation while excluding China is like studying the Industrial Revolution while ignoring the country with the most factories.
No one intended the omission. It reflects a two-level information gap that runs deeper than most Western observers realise.