China’s AI Rise Flagged as Risk as US Lacks a Federal Framework

Nimble and effective systems built by Chinese firms are threatening the US lead in artificial intelligence, technology experts warned Tuesday in a subcommittee hearing in which they lamented the absence of a federal AI framework.

“If America is going to win the so-called AI Cold War, we need to understand that traditional containment strategies won’t work,” Adam Thierer, a senior fellow of the technology and innovation team at the R Street Institute, told a subcommittee of the House’s science, space and technology panel. To remain ahead of increasingly sophisticated Chinese models, the US should preserve the freedom to innovate and ...