Geopolitical competition around artificial intelligence is an increasingly common concern. Last week, the US Defense Department released a summary of its AI strategy.
The summary was 18-pages long, so I asked EV reader Michael Sulmeyer, Senior Fellow at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, for comments on the summary.
My take, before you get to the comments, is that it seems a little half-hearted and less well-organised than public summaries of, say, Chinese civil-military fusion.
Michael’s brief points:
“The asserted rationale for this U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) AI strategy is that China and Russia are
making significant investments in AI for military purposes. [...] These investments threaten to erode our technological and operational advantages and destabilize the free and open international order.
To respond, this AI strategy states the U.S. military will incorporate AI-related technologies to 1) maintain its strategic position, 2) prevail on future battlefields, and 3) saf…