Mertens, Marlen (2025) Checkmate for the Collaboration. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
This study aims to examine the research question: Has Artificial Intelligence Technology Shifted from Global Collaboration to Regional Independence between the United States and China? This study uses a formal game-theoretical approach to model the strategic decisions of the US and China over two distinct periods: 2013–2018 and 2018–2023. The quantitative results of the game theory model, supported by empirical data and literature, demonstrate a clear transition from cooperation to strategic separation. The results also show that the levels of cooperation between the United States and China decreased significantly in the latter period, supporting the hypothesis that political and strategic developments have shifted the landscape of AI from mutual collaboration to geographic independence. From the theoretical findings perspective, this study demonstrates that in strategic international relations interactions, the structure of the payoff function determines the resulting Nash equilibrium. Moreover, the analysis shows that international interactions are dynamic: changing political environments, long-term investments, and framing effects, such as the securitisation of AI, can all reshape perceived payoffs.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Zwitter, A.J. |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2025 08:42 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2025 08:42 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/601 |
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