Summary
The broader risk of a U.S.-China tech war -- one that could potentially create two rival camps battling for global AI supremacy -- was highlighted in an interim report released this week by a commission created last year by Congress.
Eric Schmidt, the commission's chairman and the former chief executive of Google, argued similarly that even as the U.S. mobilizes for AI competition, it should avoid extreme policies.
But even as the commission's leaders try to avoid a tech Iron Curtain, they're also trying to encourage U.S. allies to pool data for a common AI strategy among Western democracies such as Canada, Australia, Britain and other European nations.
The Pentagon's biggest challenge in checking China's rapid advances in AI may simply be gathering the best brains in America (including those working here who were born abroad). The Chinese can commandeer their best and brightest; America can't.
Chinese and American AI brains would try to outthink and outmaneuver each other, perhaps aided by deceptions that corrupted the other side's data.
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