What Eric Schmidt said, newest first. Changes are found by AI and checked before they show; every quote opens at its moment.
2026-10-02 · The Economist · 28:59
“The reason to think that we are better off than we think is that China's not fought a war in 50 years. There's no reason to believe that they understand the very subtle tactics.”He thinks the US is better off than assumed because China has not fought a war in 50 years and lacks battlefield experience.
2026-08-03 · BlackNova Productions · 36:17
“we're in a window of a few years where the decisions that we make will determine whether we ultimately control our digital future or whether someone else likely China does.”He believes the US is in a short window to decide whether it or China controls the digital future.
2026-08-03 · BlackNova Productions · 33:51
“first we need a national plan and the national plan has to involve some amount of financial support from the government.”He thinks the US needs a national plan with government funding to compete in strategic technologies.
2026-07-19 · Zenvora Productions · 05:49
“That means that the majority of the world, think of it as the belt and road initiative, are going to use Chinese models and not American models.”He warns that most of the world will adopt Chinese open-weight models rather than American ones.
2026-07-01 · New SciTech 新科技 · 28:26Changed view
“the majority of the models in the world will be Chinese. Do you know why? Cuz they're going to be free”He thinks the US is on the wrong side of the open-source versus closed-source split with China.
2026-07-01 · New SciTech 新科技 · 29:14Changed view
“We are not meeting the competition and beating them globally. They are investing in science and technology and innovation at a rate to overcome America”He warns that the US is not meeting China's AI competition and that national security depends on funding it.
2026-05-13 · Special Competitive Studies Project · 08:04Changed view
“The most recent analysis is China's within 6 months, which is a nano second, right, in our world.”He believes China has nearly caught up with the US in AI, within about six months.
2026-04-13 · AI Upload · 14:37
“The American competitor, not enemy, but competitor is China.”He believes China is a competitor rather than an enemy and wants the US to compete and win against it.
2026-04-13 · AI Upload · 17:36
“I don't want to lose the robotic revolution, in my view, the way we lost the electric vehicle revolution, at least on the low end.”He expects China to win the low-cost robotics market, and does not want the US to lose the robotic revolution as it lost electric vehicles.
2026-03-24 · Peter H. Diamandis · 30:57
“My own view is that at least for very low cost, China is going to win that.”He believes China will win low-cost robotic hardware, as it won the low-end electric vehicle industry.
2026-03-24 · Peter H. Diamandis · 40:59
“I want to win the AI race. I want us to do whatever it takes to do that.”He wants America to do whatever it takes to win the AI race, including high-skills immigration.
2026-03-23 · AI Upload · 03:47
“But the arrival of humanoid robots um is likely to be dominated by China.”He expects China to dominate the market for inexpensive humanoid robots, just as it did with electric vehicles.
2026-03-23 · AI Upload · 07:28
“The country needs more energy. And if we don't get more energy, we're not going to be able to fully exploit the lead we have in AI and AGI.”He believes the US must generate far more electricity or it will lose its AI advantage.
2026-03-23 · AI Upload · 18:10
“The vast majority of governments and countries who don't have the kind of money that the West does and so forth will end up standardizing on Chinese models, not because they're better, but because they're free.”He worries that most governments will adopt free Chinese open-source models over paid US closed models, not for quality but for cost.
2026-01-28 · Forbes · 09:44
“They are in my view six to 12 months behind which is not much.”He assesses China as only six to twelve months behind the US in AI.
2025-12-02 · Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School · 36:04
“We will lose to China for their incredible adoption of AI in every product. Because they're just relentless and they work so hard.”He expects the US to lose to China in AI adoption across products.
2025-11-18 · USC · 20:44
“So staple a green card on their diploma, you know, whatever ... Whatever it takes, right?”He recommends that foreign graduate students, especially Chinese-born researchers, be allowed to stay in America after graduating.
2025-11-18 · USC · 22:35
“China and the U.S. will never be best friends, but we can learn how to work together.”He expects China to dominate electric vehicles, batteries and likely humanoid robots, but thinks the US can still work with China.
2025-11-13 · Catalaxis · 00:03
“It sure looks to me like, um, China is going to dominate the low-end robotic space. They're driving the cost of humanoid and nonhumanoid robots down to thousands of dollars from 10 $20,000.”He believes China will dominate low-cost robotics by driving robot prices down dramatically.
2025-11-13 · Catalaxis · 08:52
“There's a pretty good chance that Chinese software is going to power the majority of the world's, you know, um human interfaces with computers and business interfaces. Uh that's of concern.”He warns that Chinese software could power most of the world's computer and business interfaces.
2025-11-07 · Peter H. Diamandis · 14:16
“America has this huge lead in building these what are called hyperscalers. If there's going to be super intelligence, it's going to come from those efforts.”He believes America has a huge lead in building hyperscalers and that super intelligence will come from those efforts, with China second.
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