China's Future AI Edge? 5 Million Trained AI Professionals Today.

Imagine our high schools offering electives in AI applications for finance, healthcare, or autonomous vehicles. Theirs do.

China takes AI so seriously that the Politburo Standing Committee, including Chairman Xi, took a one-day seminar with the world’s top AI researchers, discussing the implications for China’s future of their their labs’ current investigations. Five years ago, another such seminar resulted in the 2017 Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, and below is the curriculum that will have delivered five million AI-trained people by the end of this year. As you scan it, imagine your high school offering electives in AI applications for finance, healthcare, or autonomous vehicles–because