WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- Sen. Pete Ricketts issued the following press release:
Yesterday, Chairman Pete Ricketts (R-NE) led a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, The Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy. The subcommittee hearing highlighted the need to counter Communist China's challenge to American AI leadership.
"Artificial Intelligence will revolutionize daily life and its military uses will shape the global balance of power," Chairman Ricketts said. "Unlike the moon landing, the finish line in the AI race is far less clear for the U.S.-it may be achieving Artificial General Intelligence, human-level or greater machine cognition. Communist China, by contrast, is focused on rapidly diffusing AI ac...