Computing to win: Addressing the policy blind spot that threatens national AI ambitions - Atlantic Council

Servers run inside the Facebook New Albany Data Center on Thursday, February 6, 2020 in New Albany, Ohio. Artificial intelligence (AI) is causing significant structural changes to global competition and economic growth. AI may generate trillions of dollars in new value over the next decade, but this value will not be easily captured or evenly distributed across nations. Much of it will depend on how governments invest in the underlying computational infrastructure that makes AI possible. Yet early signs point to a blind spot--a lack of understanding, measurement, and planning.