Pentagon CTO Emil Michael says the US should not take stakes in AI firms

“We don’t want government to get in the middle,” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, told CNBC when asked about government stakes in AI companies. Michael appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on 16 September. Asked whether the Trump administration could nationalise AI companies or take partial stakes in them, he said: “I […] This story continues at The Next Web