Former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus spoke with Fox News Digital about the "breathtaking" pace of AI development and what responsibility the US has to keep allies on the "cutting edge." The U.S. has no responsibility to keep its allies on the "cutting edge" of artificial intelligence (AI) development – unless it is a matter of national security, a former CIA director and retired Army officer tells Fox News Digital. "First and foremost is to ensure that we are on the cutting edge," retired four-star Gen. David Petraeus said during a recent Zoom interview. "Certainly, we should share to varying degrees with our closest partners, and they share with us – again, no one of us is smarter than all of us together in these kinds of endeavors – but it's not our job entirely to ensure that they are proceeding along these lines, unless it's, of course, in our national interest to do so, and it is in a number of different cases," he explained. The pace of AI development has dominated conversation since public access to ChatGPT in November 2022, particularly with concerns over who will stay at the top of the game – a race that drove countries to reassess their investments in the burgeoning field.