Hal Brands Urges U.S. to Keep AI Lead Over China in July Book Push
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Updated · The Washington Post · May 29
Hal Brands Urges U.S. to Keep AI Lead Over China in July Book Push
2 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · May 29
Hal Brands argued in a Washington Post opinion piece that U.S. AI supremacy will depend on both advancing frontier technology and preventing Chinese AI from dominating global markets.
China sits at the center of his warning: staying ahead, he wrote, requires not just domestic innovation but a strategy to stop rival systems from "conquering the world."
Brands is a Johns Hopkins SAIS professor and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow, and the essay comes ahead of his July-edited volume, “Geopolitics of AI: Power, Conflict, and the Future of Global Order.”
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