The development of artificial intelligence is spawning a race between the United States and China to become not only technologically dominant but to also determine who will set the global standards that will govern how and when new technologies should be used. In an On Geopolitics column published in October, Stratfor's Rebecca Keller examined the ethical questions at the heart of the ideological battle between existing Western-led norms and China's evolving digital authoritarianism: The field of artificial intelligence will be one of the biggest areas where different players will be working to establish regulatory guardrails and answer ethical questions in the future. Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote his influential laws of robotics in the first half of the 20th century, and reality is now catching up to fiction. Questions over the ethics of AI and its potential applications are numerous: What constitutes bias within the algorithms? Who owns data?