Artificial Intelligence Is America's Achilles Heel Against China

With the release of the much-anticipated National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence report, the U.S. must confront an inconvenient truth: America, in the words of co-chairmen Eric Schmidt and Bob Work, "is not prepared to defend or compete in the AI era." Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, and Work, former deputy secretary of defense, are as deeply versed in this subject as anyone in government or the private sector. Americans should treat this threat as a looming tower. What is the state of play and where does the U.S. go from here? First, let's address the most obvious and concerning opponent in the AI field: China.