The future may be determined by competition between two distinct authoritarian leftist regimes producing AI systems capable of world domination: the Chinese version and the U.S version—although, as discussed below, their differentiation may be difficult to maintain. Nevertheless, to point to distinctions that are still possible and clearly useful, I call the Chinese version “AI with Chinese Characteristics,” an irreverent play on the Chinese Communist Party’s description of its economic system. (Chapter 7 from Google Archipelago. Click here or on title.)