The greatest risk from artificial intelligence

China is exploiting this historic opportunity in part through the world's largest surveillance network of human behavior, which is tapped for strategic industrial and military purposes in partnership with leading tech companies. China's well-funded strategic plan intends to dominate artificial intelligence by 2030. Dr. Eric Schmidt captured part of the problem facing much of the U.S. economy at a recent hearing for the House Armed Services Committee: "The DOD does not have an innovation problem, it has an innovation adoption problem." While the overdue warnings are welcomed by many and should be extended to the entire U.S. economy, Dr. Schmidt's role as chairman of the Department of Defense Innovation Advisory Board represents another risk in the form of corporate oligopolies.