DIA's New China Mission Group to Track Threat Posed by AI Development - Nextgov

Improved defense intelligence collection and analysis of emerging technologies will rely on forming new partnerships between government and industry, according to leadership at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Doug Wade, the head of the DIA's China Mission Group, spoke during a Tuesday media discussion about his agency's effort to bring together the best of industry to identify specific threats China poses and coordinate responses . "So China is investing heavily right in its AI and ML capabilities," Wade said. "China's ability to use things like AI to ensure that they have strong…surveillance coverage of citizens, whether they're China citizens or whether they export that technology to other regimes around the world, and then those regimes use it to exert totalitarian control." Wade said that this potential exportation of AI technology should be an area of concern as a threat to U.S. national security, as well as to ally nations in Europe.