LONDON: China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times. Nicolas Chaillan, the Pentagon's first chief software officer who resigned in protest against the slow pace of technological transformation in the U.S. military, said the failure to respond was putting the United States at risk. China was set to dominate the future of the world, controlling everything from media narratives to geopolitics, he said. Chinese companies, Chaillan said, were obliged to work with their government and were making "massive investment" in AI without regard to ethics. Chaillan announced his resignation at the beginning of September, saying military officials were repeatedly put in charge of cyber initiatives for which they lacked experience.

Source: The Star October 11, 2021 06:33 UTC