The Hidden Front in the US–China AI Race

The United States and China are locked in a race for supremacy in artificial intelligence (AI), the driving technology behind the next industrial revolution. With sweeping impacts across national security, economics, and civil liberties, the U.S.–China AI competition may decide whether we ultimately live in a democratic or authoritarian world. Industry experts are sounding the alarm. “We are in a full-blown tech race with China on AI,” Greg Levesque, co-founder and CEO of Strider Technologies, an AI-powered cyber intelligence company, said at the AI+ Expo conference in early June. Levesque warned that this is no longer just a government challenge, but also “an American problem,” and called for a whole-of-nation response to China’s AI surge....