AI panel urges US to boost tech skills amid China’s rise


Schmidt told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that the AI panel believes the US is ‘one or two years ahead of China, not five or 10’. — Reuters

An artificial intelligence commission led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is urging the US to boost its AI skills to counter China, including by pursuing “AI-enabled” weapons – something that Google itself has shied away from on ethical grounds.

Schmidt and current executives from Google, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon are among the 15 members of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which released its final report to Congress on Monday.

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