Yes, they can
They analyse our perception of the world. Though George Orwell's all-seeing Big Brother was initially conceived as the metaphor of the omnipresent totalitarian state, today, its mission seems to have been taken on by IT giants.

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This is complete nonsense.
At the moment, there are already restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence in the form of unconstitutional laws prohibiting the training of AI models on publicly available data.

Everyone is shouting that artificial intelligence is a threat, but at the same time they are introducing it everywhere at a record pace, trying to do it faster than competitors.
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In 2042
Although China allocates 3 times more funds to microelectronics than its main competitors. China is currently dependent on US technology, and to overtake the US, it needs to create a new conductor technology. Such technology will be invented by 2040

The U.S. is already creating some tensions with its partners and will not be able to block the supply of key components to China in the future
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Because there are competitors
China plans to start manned flights to the moon and build a lunar base by 2030

China is a contender for winning the second lunar race (for the creation of the first lunar base and the resumption of manned flights to the moon after more than half a century of break) in case of failure or delay in similar plans of the United States, Russia, EU, Japan, India.
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