Assistant Professor at George Washington University | technology and int'l politics | newsletter on China's AI landscape: http://chinai.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeffreyding.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeffreyding.bsky.social/post/3me74vrlnqs2gMany policymakers and researchers see China as the most likely source of an AI accident. Yet, China has achieved remarkable safety gains in certain high-risk technological domains, including civil aviation and nuclear power. How?06 Feb 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:a3ncd2s2ai2dunpb4nu4niy6/app.bsky.feed.post/3me74vrlnqs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jeffreyding.bsky.social/post/3lz6xnpepe225I feel very honored to receive the Lepgold Prize, awarded by Georgetown's Mortara Center to the best book in international relations published in the preceding year. Thanks to the selection committee for recognizing my book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers! [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Sep 2025 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:a3ncd2s2ai2dunpb4nu4niy6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz6xnpepe225https://bsky.app/profile/jeffreyding.bsky.social/post/3lrg6cy2ass2uMy book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers is now available in traditional Chinese! Much thanks to Taiwanese publisher Acropolis [衛城出版] and translator Ruisong Xu [許瑞宋] for diffusing these ideas. https://www.books.com.tw/products/001102219012 Jun 2025 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:a3ncd2s2ai2dunpb4nu4niy6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrg6cy2ass2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeffreyding.bsky.social/post/3lmscci4his2hSome reading for business and pleasure this afternoon. A preview of next week’s ChinAI…14 Apr 2025 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:a3ncd2s2ai2dunpb4nu4niy6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmscci4his2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeffreyding.bsky.social/post/3lgsnkafgec2tI had the cool opportunity to discuss DeepSeek and China's AI development on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show last night. They were kind enough to give some primetime product placement for my book too! @princetonupress.bsky.social https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/business/video/chinas-new-chatbot-scrambles-rush-to-build-ai28 Jan 2025 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:a3ncd2s2ai2dunpb4nu4niy6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgsnkafgec2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jeffreyding.bsky.social/post/3lggvj3z7ck2jVery pleased to be quoted in The New York Times on how Chinese AI startups are building more efficient AI models. Includes fascinating details about how engineers are using DeepSeek's models in the open source SGLang project. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/technology/deepseek-china-ai-chips.html23 Jan 2025 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:a3ncd2s2ai2dunpb4nu4niy6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lggvj3z7ck2j