China’s Stealing Our AI, but May Not Have to for Long

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Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence poses a number of different threats. It can make existing weapons more sophisticated and dangerous, it can help develop new weapons entirely and it can easily be used to create the ultimate surveillance state.

All of that is happening particularly quickly in China, which has stated ambitions to lead the world in AI in the near future. Security expert Elsa Kania joins us to explain what’s going on.

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0:22.0	China has clearly articulated ambitions to quote-unquote lead the world in artificial intelligence and become the world's
0:24.8	premier AI Innovation Center by 2030. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.
0:42.0	Here are your hosts. Matthew Galton. stories from behind the front lines.
0:42.7	Here are your hosts, Matthew Gault. Artificial Intelligence is one of tech's favorite bugs.
0:55.0	Hello and welcome to War College.
0:58.0	I'm Jason Fields.
1:00.0	And I'm Matthew Gault.
1:02.0	Artificial Intelligence is one of Tech's favorite buzzwords at the moment.
1:06.0	It's supposedly being built into everything from your phone to your dishwasher.
1:11.0	And of course, the military is all over it. But what does it look like in reality
1:16.0	and how scared should we be? To help us answer these questions, we've asked Elsicania to join us.
1:21.6	Elsa is an adjunct fellow focusing on technology and national security
1:26.8	at the Center for New American Security.
1:29.4	So thank you very much for joining us.
1:31.6	Thank you.
1:33.0	It's great to be here.
1:34.8	I always like to start off with the basics, and I think you can't get much more basic
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