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The U.S. remains ahead of adversaries in AI but could risk losing ground to China,according to AI experts from Google, Microsoft, and Georgetown University.

Inside AI

May 5, 2022

According to Senior Fellow Andrew Lohn in his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, the U.S. is the leading global innovator in AI.

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On Tuesday, the experts briefed lawmakers about AI’s applications in cyberspace during a hearing of a Senate Armed Services cyber subcommittee.

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  • The experts were Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz, Google Cloud AI Director Andrew Moore, and Georgetown CSET Senior Fellow Andrew Lohn. 
  • Lohn told lawmakers that the U.S. is the innovation leader in AI and has companies providing a “huge leg up.” However, China has been making gains, he said.
  • Horvitz agreed that the U.S. leads in science but “these days technical advances spread around the world like lightning.”
  • Similarly, Moore said the U.S. is ahead but “losing ground” in AI. He expressed the most concerns about organizational structures and management, which will require changes for massive-scale and superhuman automation.

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  • The experts and lawmakers also discussed the use of AI at the Pentagon, which some critics have argued has been slow to adopt AI.
  • America’s adversaries “are going to use AI against us, so we must use AI to defend against them,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.).
  • Moore congratulated the Pentagon’s new chief digital and artificial intelligence office and its new head, former Lyft machine learning executive Craig Martell.
  • It will bring about success to have a “centralized effort to put an artificial intelligence strategy across the whole DOD,” Moore said.