La veille de la cybersécurité

The United States is no stranger to technological arms races, having spent much of the Cold War in a two-pronged one-upmanship effort against the Soviet Union to build bigger rockets and land those on the moon. Its rivalry now is with China, and the latest battleground is artificial intelligence. China has long sought to dominate the AI landscape, laying out a plan to become a "global leader" in the sector by 2030 and pledging billions of state dollars for research and development. U.S. breakthroughs have been more organic, illustrated most recently by the rapid global uptake of chatbots made by American companies, such as Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, with Chinese counterparts largely playing catch-up. One fundamental distinction is the private sector's role at the forefront of developing new AI capabilities: There were no private-built rockets in the 1960s.