Ben Murphy
murphyben.bsky.social
Ben Murphy
@murphyben.bsky.social
Translation Manager, csetgeorgetown.bsky.social
There's a lot of good stuff in these Chinese 5-year plan spinoffs. But what's most interesting, I think, is what's not in there. Relative to the 5-year plans of yesteryear, there's very little about the need for China to acquire foreign technology. China's not playing catch-up so much anymore.
✨ New Translation Snapshot ✨

As the sun sets on China’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), the question arises: Where is Chinese tech policy going in 2026?

CSET’s translations of several 14th Five-Year Plan spinoff and follow-up plans provide clues: cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...
Translation Snapshot: 14th Five-Year Plan Spinoffs | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Translation Snapshots are short posts that highlight related translations produced by CSET’s in-house translation team. Each snapshot identifies relevant translations, provides short summaries, and li...
cset.georgetown.edu
August 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Xi Jinping urged China to achieve superiority in AI, and to use AI to turbocharge China's scientific research across the board, in a rare AI-themed Politburo study session last Friday. My translation of it for @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social is here: cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...
cset.georgetown
April 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Chinese AI luminary Song-Chun Zhu, writing over two weeks ago, sounds like a prophet in cset.georgetown.edu/publication/... , rejecting the U.S. "big data + big compute + large models" approach to LLMs in favor of "algorithmic innovation."
Song-Chun Zhu: The Race to General Purpose Artificial Intelligence is not Merely About Technological Competition; Even More So, it is a Struggle to Control the Narrative | Center for Security and Emer...
Read out translation of an interview of Chinese AI expert Song-Chun Zhu, who argues that China’s AI industry should chart a different course than the current U.S. focus on data- and compute-heavy larg...
cset.georgetown.edu
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
2025 is shaping up to be a busy year here @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social for translations of Chinese export controls, AI standards, compute and chip strategies, and more!
Watch for those and the rest of CSET's work on emerging technologies, China-related or not, here: bsky.app/starter-pack...
January 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My favorite feature of @emergingtechobs.bsky.social 's brand-new repository of global AI governance and regulatory docs, AGORA? The China-focused "thematic collection" with the full text of 20 (and counting) Chinese AI governance regs & statements.
🚀🏛️🚀 Introducing AGORA, ETO's new explorer for the AI governance landscape - with plain-English summaries, full text, and thematic tags for AI laws and policies around the world, from D.C. to Sacramento to Beijing 🌎 🗺️ agora.eto.tech
December 11, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Ever wonder how to say "gate-all-around field-effect transistor" in Chinese? Who hasn't? (全包围栅极晶体管, of course!) My Chinese technical glossary is now live on CSET's emergingtechobs.bsky.social, and there are 16,000+ more translations of technical and specialized Chinese terms there to enjoy.
December 4, 2024 at 4:12 PM
China's retaliatory export controls on exports of rare earths to the United States, released today? I translated them for @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social already: cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...
cset.georgetown
December 3, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I signed up for Bluesky today! Did I choose the username "murphyben" because "benmurphy" was already taken? No! Quite the opposite. In deference to Chinese tradition, I'm listing my surname first, to honor my ancestors 🤥
November 25, 2024 at 6:04 PM