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Yellow Techno-Peril: The "Clash of Civilizations" and Anti-Chinese Racial Rhetoric in the US–China AI Arms Race

A 2024 open-access article in Big Data & Society by Kerry McInerney arguing that the "AI arms race" narrative between the United States and China is deeply racialized, building on "Clash of Civilizations" rhetoric and older anti-Asian tropes such as techno-Orientalism and the Yellow Peril. The author coins "Yellow Techno-Peril" and offers recommendations for policymakers, journalists, and media organizations. Free to read (open access).

Why I recommend it: The arms-race framing shows up constantly in AI coverage. This paper names what that framing carries with it and gives concrete guidance for talking about competition without the racialized baggage.

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journals.sagepub.comAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens
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Technology & Ethics

Artificial Intelligence's Hybrid, Public–Private Sense-Makers: The Geopolitical Race Case

A July 2026 open-access article in the Cambridge Forum on Technology and Global Affairs by Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford) examining how "hybrid epistemic experts" — figures straddling technical expertise, corporate leadership, and policy influence, with Eric Schmidt as the central case — constructed and amplified the "U.S.–China AI Race" narrative between 2015 and 2023. The article raises concerns about democratic governance and the concentration of AI knowledge production in private hands. Free to read (open access).

Why I recommend it: Explains how the AI race narrative was built by people who sit in boardrooms and policy rooms at the same time. Read it alongside the Yellow Techno-Peril paper for two complementary critiques of the same framing.

#ai#ethics#us-china#policy#geopolitics#eric-schmidt#research#open-access
cambridge.orgAdded Sep 27, 20260 opens