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15th Five-Year Plan puts AI at center of digital economy agenda

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The 15th Five-Year Plan is the first consequential national policy document that mentions Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Why that matters: US policymakers, for whom the race to AGI through scaling has become a driving force of tech policy, are still hotly debating whether or not Beijing is ...