Pentagon Official: US Should Dominate China on AI, Not ‘Unliterally Disarm’

As President Donald Trump prepared to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a top Pentagon official on Sept. 23 rejected calls for a slowdown in artificial intelligence (AI) development, saying “unliteral disarmament” in the AI race with Beijing would be a grave mistake. “Artificial intelligence is accelerating quite rapidly, and maintaining U.S.