Investorideas.com Newswire - Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence?

Newswire) Investorideas.com, a global investor news source covering Artificial Intelligence issues a special edition of The AI Eye, looking at the battle for dominance between the US and China. On February 11, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. The document stresses the importance of AI in propelling the US economy and cites current American global leadership in terms of R&D and deployment of AI as justifications for ramping up federal government commitments to promote the technology. Though it is not explicitly mentioned in the document, many commentators felt that the growing rivalry with China in the AI space influenced the President's executive order. Rob Verger, writing for Popular Science, captured the impression of those commentators when he observed: "Competition with China is a big part of the subtext to this announcement..." Some US AI companies were quick to respond.