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What percentage of U.S. AI publications will have a Chinese co-author in 2021?

Multiple choice Opened 22 October 2020 Closed 1 April 2021 Resolved 3 January 2022 149 forecasts 106 forecasters

Context. As U.S.-China tensions increase, policymakers are paying greater attention to areas in which the two countries are entangled. One such area relevant to tech-security policy is AI research collaborations. To date, the U.S.-China decoupling trends apparent in economic and immigration data do not appear to be impacting research collaborations. Whether potential conflicts between academic and security interests will begin to affect research collaborations is unclear.

Data and resolution details. This question resolves based on Dimensions data. We classified publications as AI/ML-relevant or not using a predictive model trained on arXiv publication data, where a publication is relevant if it’s categorized on arXiv under any of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, computation and language, multiagent systems, or robotics. To read more about this method, see “Identifying the Development and Application of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Text.” A publication is a U.S. publication if any author is affiliated with a U.S.-based organization. A publication is a U.S.-China collaboration if at least one author is affiliated with a U.S.-based organization and at least one author is affiliated with a China-based organization.

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Outcome

Answer Final crowd forecast Resolution
Less than 15% 4% Did not happen
Between 15% and 17%, inclusive 21% Happened
More than 17% but less than or equal to 19% 44% Did not happen
More than 19% but less than or equal to 21% 25% Did not happen
More than 21% 6% Did not happen

“Final crowd forecast” is the last aggregate crowd probability computed before the question closed – the right-hand end of the chart below, which this table is the accessible equivalent of.

Crowd forecast over time

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Jan 2021 Mar 2021 Apr 2021 44% 25% 21% 6% 4%
More than 17% but less than or equal to 19% More than 19% but less than or equal to 21% Between 15% and 17%, inclusive More than 21% Less than 15%
The aggregate crowd probability, one point per day, from RFI's primary aggregation method. Gaps are days with no computed aggregate. Individual forecasts are not shown.