Jinghan Zeng is Professor of China and International Studies at Lancaster University. His research focuses on China's domestic and international politics. He is the author of Slogan Politics: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy Concepts (2020) and The Chinese Communist Party's Capacity to Rule: Ideology, Legitimacy and Party Cohesion (2015). He is also the co-editor of One Belt, One Road, One Story?: Towards an EU-China Strategic Narrative (2021).

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 AI and Authoritarian Governance.- Chapter 3 Securitization of AI.- Chapter 4 China's AI politics: Top-down vs Bottom-up.- Chapter 5 Concluding Remarks.