While Chinese artificial intelligence technologies have advanced rapidly, they aren’t an imminent national security threat to the United States.
It’s a familiar refrain in tech boardrooms and government corridors: China is aggressively challenging America to an arms race in artificial intelligence. Whoever wins will control the geopolitical landscape — and global economy — for generations.It feels at times like we are dangerously close to making the same kind of erroneous ‘bomber-missile gap’ assessment with AI that we did with the Soviet Union in the early 1960s.
The China AI threat narrative boosts the Pentagon’s demand for high-tech weapon, surveillance and logistical systems, serving to justify and accelerate, while bending government AI research toward military rather than civilian uses. Tech companies are lining up to claim their share of the Defense Department’s $886 billion annual budget — not only giants likewith the Israeli defense ministry has sparked protests among employees who are appalled by the company’s support for the war in Gaza.
Roberto J. González is a professor in the anthropology department at San José State University. His most recent book is “War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future.”Miss Manners: My houseguest's sleeping quirk has an undesirable resultDear Abby: His girlfriend is his niece.
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