Vying to control the future of artificial intelligence, Beijing is pushing the application of AI while the U.S. focuses on developing cutting-edge models.

The city’s remote control mower, also nicknamed R2-D2 by the city’s landscaping team, works an eight-hour shift like the rest of us.

Some optimists also believed that AI is nowhere closer to gaining control of the nuclear codes. Jon Wolfsthal, a non-proliferation expert commented: “The conversation about AI and nukes is ...