Commerce's BIS Can Help Stop China's Quest For AI Dominance

AI-enabled cameras capture schoolchildren in China's Xinjiang region. Cameras identify and track ... [ ] Uighurs and other ethnic minorities face in the heavily-policed region. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key technologies of the future – and not just because of civilian applications like ecommerce, self-driving cars, and online search and personal assistants. AI will transform militaries through innovations in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, logistics, command and control capabilities, weapons systems, and so on. Last year a landmark U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) report found, "The ability of a machine to perceive, evaluate, and act more quickly and accurately than a human represents a competitive advantage in any field--civilian or military."