{"id":73624,"date":"2017-11-02T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/googles-former-ceo-says-us-could-fail-in-the-ai-competition-with-china"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T17:02:48","slug":"googles-former-ceo-says-us-could-fail-in-the-ai-competition-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/googles-former-ceo-says-us-could-fail-in-the-ai-competition-with-china","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s former CEO says US could fail in the AI competition with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/googles-former-ceo-says-us-could-fail-in-the-ai-competition-with-china2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt says the US is at risk of falling behind in the race to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Speaking at a tech summit organized by national security think tank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnas.org\">CNAS<\/a>, Schmidt predicted that America\u2019s lead in the field would continue \u201cover the next five years\u201d before China catches up \u201cextremely quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are going to use this technology for both commercial and military objectives, with all sorts of implications,\u201d said Schmidt, referencing a Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/20\/business\/china-artificial-intelligence.html?_r=0\">policy document<\/a> outlining the country\u2019s ambition to become the global leader in AI by 2030. Schmidt reiterated several familiar talking points in this debate, primarily that the US is failing to invest in basic research, and that a restrictive immigration policy hobbles the country\u2019s ability to attract AI talent from overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the very best people are in countries that we won\u2019t let into America. Would you rather have them building AI somewhere else, or rather have them here?\u201d said Schmidt. \u201cIran produces some of the top computer scientists in the world, and I want them here. To be clear, I want them working for Alphabet and Google!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/1\/16592338\/eric-schmidt-google-ai-competition-us-china\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/1\/16592338\/eric-schmidt-goo...n-us-china<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt says the US is at risk of falling behind in the race to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Speaking at a tech summit organized by national security think tank CNAS, Schmidt predicted that America\u2019s lead in the field would continue \u201cover the next five years\u201d before China catches up \u201cextremely quickly.\u201d \u201cThey [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}