New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Artificial intelligence is emerging as a new front in the widening US-China rift. As US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet this week, the two leaders are expected to discuss an AI dialogue mechanism to address safety and national security risks.

In fact, Tuesday's front page of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese communist party (CCP), ran an article saying that the US and China should "make AI a new frontier for China-US cooperation" and "make good use of the intergovernmental dialogue mechanism on AI".

But behind the talk of cooperation, there's a deeper contest over who controls the technologies, chips and computing infrastructure that could shape the next phase o...