How Human Detectives Catch AI Thieves

Last December, a U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) declared artificial intelligence (AI) "critical to America's economic growth and security," but warned that China and other countries have attempted to "steal U.S. intellectual property" in the field of AI. To be fair, China has made great strides lately in strengthening its own enforcement of patent rights. Nonetheless, the NSS warned that stronger efforts were needed by U.S. companies to "curtail intellectual property (IP) theft by all sources" of our cutting-edge AI research. But as telecommunications giant AT&T and other firms can attest, only human intelligence can stop the theft of artificial intelligence. AT&T deploys a sophisticated suite of AI tools to manage the nearly 200 petabytes of data traffic that flows through its global telecommunications network every day (equivalent to 100 trillion pages of printed text).