The United States must ensure the next chapter of responsible innovation is written in America, not in China, lawmakers and witnesses told a congressional hearing on Thursday as they sounded the alarm over US-China competition for global supremacy in artificial intelligence (AI).
“Cyber security and national security must be taken seriously. The United States cannot afford to let China or any other adversary gain a technological edge in artificial intelligence,” said Tim Scott, chairman of the US Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
No contest matters more for America’s future than to beat China in artificial intelligence, said US Senator Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana: “The nation that leads in AI will set the terms of the world’s economy and command the high ground in military power.”
The competition with China was front and centre at the hearing titled AI and the American Dream: Promoting Innovation, Affordability, and American Dominance, in which lawmakers displayed bipartisan support for retaining America’s lead in the field.
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