{"id":9573,"date":"2023-04-08T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/as-ai-weaponry-enters-the-arms-race-america-is-feeling-very-very-afraid-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:37:29","slug":"as-ai-weaponry-enters-the-arms-race-america-is-feeling-very-very-afraid-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/as-ai-weaponry-enters-the-arms-race-america-is-feeling-very-very-afraid-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"As AI weaponry enters the arms race, America is feeling very, very afraid | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will technological advantages be enough for China to replace the US as the world\u2019s AI superpower?<\/p>\n

The Bible maintains that \u201cthe race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong\u201d, but, as Damon Runyon used to say, \u201cthat is the way to bet\u201d. As a species, we take the same view, which is why we are obsessed with \u201craces\u201d. Political journalism, for example, is mostly horserace coverage \u2013 runners and riders, favourites, outsiders, each-way bets, etc. And when we get into geopolitics and international relations we find a field obsessed with arms \u201craces\u201d.<\/p>\n

In recent times, a new kind of weaponry \u2013 loosely called \u201cAI\u201d \u2013 has entered the race. In 2021, we belatedly discovered how worried the US government was about it. A National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence<\/a> was convened under the chairmanship of Eric Schmidt, the former chair of Google. In its report, issued in March of that year, the commission warned<\/a>: that China could soon replace the US as the world\u2019s \u201cAI superpower\u201d; that AI systems will be used (surprise, surprise!) in the \u201cpursuit of power\u201d; and that \u201cAI will not stay in the domain of superpowers or the realm of science fiction\u201d. It also urged President Biden to reject calls for a global ban on highly controversial AI-powered autonomous weapons, saying that China and Russia were unlikely to keep to any treaty they signed.<\/p>\n

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\nWill technological advantages be enough for China to replace the US as the world\u2019s AI superpower?
\nThe Bible maintains that \u201cthe race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong\u201d, but, as Damon Runyon used to say, \u201cthat is the way to bet\u201d. As a species, we take the same view, which is why we are obsessed with \u201craces\u201d. Political journalism, for example, is mostly horserace coverage \u2013 runners and riders, favourites, outsiders, each-way bets, etc. And when we get into geopolitics and international relations we find a field obsessed with arms \u201craces\u201d.
\nIn recent times, a new kind of weaponry \u2013 loosely called \u201cAI\u201d \u2013 has entered the race. In 2021, we belatedly discovered how worried the US government was about it. A National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence was convened under the chairmanship of Eric Schmidt, the former chair of Google. In its report, issued in March of that year, the commission warned: that China could soon replace the US as the world\u2019s \u201cAI superpower\u201d; that AI systems will be used (surprise, surprise!) in the \u201cpursuit of power\u201d; and that \u201cAI will not stay in the domain of superpowers or the realm of science fiction\u201d. It also urged President Biden to reject calls for a global ban on highly controversial AI-powered autonomous weapons, saying that China and Russia were unlikely to keep to any treaty they signed. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will technological advantages be enough for China to replace the US as the world\u2019s AI superpower? The Bible maintains that \u201cthe race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong\u201d, but, as Damon Runyon used to say, \u201cthat is the way to bet\u201d. As a species, we take the same view, which …<\/p>\n

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