Nu deze administratie uitzwaait neemt National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan geen blad meer voor de mond;
Underscoring the gravity of his message, Sullivan spoke with an urgency and directness that were rarely heard during his decade-plus in public life.
The next few years will determine whether artificial intelligence leads to catastrophe — and whether China or America prevails in the AI arms race.
America must quickly perfect a technology that many believe will be smarter and more capable than humans. We need to do this without decimating U.S. jobs, and inadvertently unleashing something with capabilities we didn't anticipate or prepare for. We need to both beat China on the technology
and in shaping and setting global usage and monitoring of it, so bad actors don't use it catastrophically.
Every background conversation we had with President Biden's high command came back to China. Yes, they had concerns about the ethics, misinformation and job loss of AI. They
talked about that. But they were unusually blunt in private: Every move, every risk was calculated to keep China from beating us to the AI punch. Nothing else matters, they basically said. That's why they applied export controls on the top-of-the-line semiconductors needed to power AI development — including in Biden's final days in office — and cut off supply of the hyper-sophisticated tools Chinese firms need to make such chips themselves.
Unlike previous dramatic technology advancements (atomic weapons, space, the internet), AI development sits outside of government and security clearances, and in the hands of private companies with the power of nation-states. Government will have to join forces with these companies to nurture and protect America's early AI edge, and shape the global rules for using potentially God-like powers.
This is beyond uncharted waters. It's an unexplored galaxy — "a new frontier," in his words. And one, he warns, where progress routinely
exceeds projections in advancement. Progress is now pulsing in months, not years.
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