Pentagon program director abrupt quitting earlier this month, and now we know why: Nicolas Chaillan, former CSO of the United States Air Force and Space Force, told the Financial Times that the United States “has no chance of competing with China in 15 to 20 years” when it comes to cyber wars and artificial intelligence.
Chaillan, a 37-year-old entrepreneur, also added that computer security in many state-owned enterprises was “on the kindergarten field,” and that companies like Google were harming the US by not working with the AI military, as Chinese companies were making “big money” in AI without crucified all on the character of all this. And quitting because America has already lost AI competition is dangerous, Chaillan is not the only one affected by Chinese rule in the arena.
We can all agree that no one wants China to make Skynet, the most powerful AI ever is taking over the earth in On board movies. But we do not want the US to do this. But what does the finish line in this AI competition look like? And does the US really want to win in any case?
For many years, pundits have been comparing AI competition with space competition – I warn that the US is losing. It is a useful illustration, because it helps the American people to initiate modern conflicts with countries like China and Russia during the Cold War. Many argued that we found ourselves in the second Cold War and that a country that wins AI competition will take the throne as the most powerful ruler. But AI change is not just about fighting or controlling politics. What we do to change will change almost everything in our lives, from the way we run a business to the way we change information to the way we move.
That is why it is important for the US to consider a fast-moving future by filling with autonomous vehicles, unlimited collection, and regular lighting. These are programs that the next generation of AI will help, and if a small group of technology companies and / or the US military insists on developing new ones without laying the right rails, the world’s revolutionary technology may present some unexpected challenges. President Biden called on the US and Europe to work together in making the new technology carefully in February’s speech at the Security Conference in Munich.
“We need to make laws that will guide the development of technology and ethical values on the internet, creative thinking, technical expertise to be used to uplift people, not to use coercion,” Biden said. “We need to stand up for the democratic principles that enable us to achieve this, and to push back those who can do it for themselves and perpetuate oppression.
You can also look at modern China to see what the near future of a group with AI might look like. As Kai-Fu Lee states in his book AI Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and New World Order, China has been very aggressive in developing AI-based solutions, especially in monitoring and data collection, thanks to the government-sponsored segment and the lack of oversight that allows some of the technology companies out there to compete with the rest of the industry. WeChat and its parent company, Tencent, are excellent examples of this. On WeChat, privacy does not seem to be the original, but the amount of information that the program can collect is useful for teaching AI.
“Imagine, if you would like, that Facebook got a Visa and Mastercard and combined everything I worked for, as well as investing in Amazon and Uber with OpenTable and so on, and creating nature that once you log on to Facebook, all of these things you click once and then you can pay and click elsewhere. ”Lee told a New York magazine. “That’s a good brand that WeChat brought, and its importance is the amount of all the information it goes through.”
This is the best-of-breed strategy that seems to give China a leg up in the AI competition. China too they seem to be playing when it comes to setting standards of conduct. Last week, the country provided its first guide on AI behavior. The US already knew this they may be racist or immoral, and the Pentagon followed its guidelines on AI ethics about two years ago. And as we have learned recently, the AI that companies like Facebook and YouTube use for content it can also be used to change people and undermine democracy. That’s why – especially in the face of Facebook’s falsehoods that revealed internal research proving to be fabricated it was harmful to other users, including young girls – US lawmakers recently seem to want to do more how to run algorithms more than you can beat China in the AI competition.
The two things are not compatible, by the way. Chaillan, a former head of military software, has been given the right to consider how the US is rapidly developing its own computer security and smart computers. And now that he knows how the Pentagon works in government, he can make good money to deal with his worries. For all of us, the rise of AI should not feel like a rivalry against China. It’s like a very fast game.
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