US Gave Millions to Chinese Scientist Developing AI

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The United States government gave at least $30 million in grants to Song-Chun Zhu, a Chinese scientist working to develop his country's global supremacy in artificial intelligence.

Newsweek looked into the grants and found that the Pentagon continued distributing the money even as Zhu set up two AI institutes in China and strengthened his ties to the ruling Communist Party.

"The NSF became aware of these national security and research security risks near the end range of this scientist's funding," she added. Zhu led the University of California, Los Angeles' Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy from 2002 until 2020, where he piled up the grants. "Its influence is equivalent to the 'atomic bomb' in the information technology field," Zhu explained at the time. "If our country can take the lead in realizing a truly universal intelligence, it will become the 'winner' of the international technological competition."

 

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