AI is a national security priority -- here's how we cultivate it

Maintaining a competitive edge over global competition in artificial intelligence (AI) has risen swiftly over the past several years as a bipartisan national security priority. That high-level strategic guidance is now transitioning to implementation. Two important steps were taken recently. These documents made clear that delivering results for the nation on AI is the responsibility of individual federal departments and agencies doing their part. These documents also rightly advance what my CSIS colleagues and I presented in a previous report on AI and National Security termed an "AI ecosystem."