China follows an opposite trajectory, producing 57% of the world's AI undergraduates but seeing its workforce share drop to 41% as researchers move abroad. While the U.S. retains 89% of its own graduates, China retains only 69%, meaning the current competitive race for AI supremacy is effectively a divide between Chinese researchers who remain in China and those who migrate to the U.S.
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US AI Workforce Hits 34% Share on Chinese Talent Imports
AI22 days ago
American universities generate just 13% of the global pool of undergraduate artificial intelligence researchers, creating a steep reliance on international recruitment to sustain the industry. An analysis by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows the U.S. share of top AI talent in the workplace rises to 34% only after accounting for immigration, the vast majority of which comes from China.
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