WHAT: The United States is in a new arms race with Russia and China; the Pentagon just released (Feb. EXPERT: Tomás Díaz de la Rubia, vice president for Purdue University's Discovery Park, is an expert in emerging technologies, including AI and quantum information systems. He was also a speaker at a May 2018 White House summit, "Artificial Intelligence for American Industry." QUOTE from de la Rubia: "We live today again in a world of great power competition. Those groups and nations that innovate most effectively and dominate the AI technology landscape will not only control commercial markets but will also hold a very significant advantage in future warfare and defense. In many respects, the threat of AI-based weapons is perhaps as existential a threat to the future national security of the United States and its allies as nuclear weapons were at the end of World War II."