{"id":192407,"date":"2021-03-02T19:57:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ai-panel-urges-us-to-boost-tech-skills-amid-chinas-rise-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:57:32","slug":"ai-panel-urges-us-to-boost-tech-skills-amid-chinas-rise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-panel-urges-us-to-boost-tech-skills-amid-chinas-rise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#AI panel urges US to boost tech skills amid China’s rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#AI panel urges US to boost tech skills amid China’s rise<\/strong>”
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An artificial intelligence commission led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is urging the US to boost its AI skills to counter China, including by pursuing \u201cAI-enabled\u201d weapons \u2013 something that Google itself has shied away from on ethical grounds.<\/p>\n

Schmidt and current executives from Google, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon are among the 15 members of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which released its final report to Congress on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo win in AI we need more money, more talent, stronger leadership,\u201d Schmidt said Monday.<\/p>\n

The report says that machines that can \u201cperceive, decide and act more quickly\u201d than humans and with more accuracy are going to be deployed for military purposes \u2014 with or without the involvement of the US and other democracies. It warns against unchecked use of autonomous weapons but expresses opposition to a global ban.<\/p>\n

It also calls for \u201cwise restraints\u201d on the use of AI tools such as facial recognition that can be used for mass surveillance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to develop technology<\/a> that preserves our Western values, but we have to be prepared for a world in which not everyone is doing that,\u201d said Andrew Moore, a commissioner and the head of Google Cloud AI.<\/p>\n

The group has the ear of top lawmakers from both parties but has attracted criticism for including many members who work for tech companies with big government contracts and who thus have a lot at stake in federal rules on emerging technology.<\/p>\n

The report calls for a \u201cWhite House-led strategy\u201d to defend against AI-related threats, to set standards on how intelligent machines can be used responsibly and to boost US research and development to maintain the nation\u2019s technological advantage over China.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe we are one or two years ahead of China, not five or 10,\u201d Schmidt told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week. He clarified Monday that that he was expressing his personal opinions and not necessarily those of the commission.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not yet clear whether President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is on board with the commission\u2019s app<\/a>roach. It\u2019s still awaiting confirmation of a new director for the White House Office of Science<\/a> and Technology Policy, which Biden has elevated to a Cabinet-level position.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI policy tends to be very bipartisan,\u201d said Michael Kratsios, who was US chief technology officer under President Donald Trump and led a push to pump more resources into AI development across federal agencies. The greatest imperative, he said, is that \u201cthe next great AI technologies are developed in the West.\u201d<\/p>\n

One big difference between the two administrations is likely to be the approach to building AI talent. The commission recommends a more open immigration policy than what Trump favored.<\/p>\n

Congress formed the AI panel in 2018 and appointed 12 of its 15 commissioners, with the others picked by Trump\u2019s Defense and Commerce secretaries. A judge later compelled the commission to make its meetings and records more accessible to the public after a civil liberties group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, challenged its secrecy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been led by Schmidt, who was Google\u2019s CEO and later the executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet. He previously helped lead the Defense Innovation Board, which advises the Pentagon on new technology.<\/p>\n

That brought some conflict in 2018 when\u00a0Google backed out of Project Maven<\/a>, a US military initiative using AI-based computer vision technology to analyze drone footage in conflict zones. The company, responding to internal activism from employees, also pledged not to use AI in any weapons-related applications.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not agree with the Google decisions on Maven,\u201d Schmidt told senators last week, calling it an \u201caberration\u201d compared to the tech industry as a whole, where he says there are plenty of companies that want to work with the military. He said AI and machine vision systems are particularly good at \u201cwatching for things,\u201d which is something the military spends a lot of time doing.<\/p>\n

The commission also includes executives like Safra Catz, the CEO of software giant Oracle and Amazon\u2019s incoming CEO, Andy Jassy, who currently runs its cloud computing division, as well as top AI experts at Microsoft and Google. All four companies have competed against each other for federal cloud computing contracts. The representatives from Microsoft and Google joined other members in approving the final report Monday, but abstained from the section relating to government partnerships with the private sector.<\/p>\n

Excluding human rights groups and rank-and-file tech experts from the commission has led the group to more easily frame this policy issue as a \u201cdemocracy versus authoritarianism\u201d competition against China while skirting more difficult topics, like the use of AI technologies on the US-Mexico border, said Jack Poulson, a former Google researcher who now directs industry watchdog Tech Inquiry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nominal reason to have these tech CEOs on these committees is they\u2019re experts in the technology. But they\u2019re also, subject to shareholder requirements, acting in the interests of their companies,\u201d Poulson said. \u201cThey don\u2019t want significant regulation or antitrust enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government-industry partnership may be important for the US and its allies to help set standards for the responsible use of AI, said Megan Lamberth, a research associate at the Center for a New American Security.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI has the potential to really transform not only how militaries fight wars, but how economies operate and how societies and people interact with each other,\u201d Lamberth said. \u201cIf there\u2019s a gap in leadership, another country is going to fill that void.\u201d<\/p>\n

The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement Monday that the commission made useful recommendations but it should have gone further by establishing civil rights protections now, before AI systems are widely deployed by intelligence agencies and the military.<\/p>\n

The commission asked Congress to make new laws requiring federal agencies to conduct human rights assessments of new AI systems used on Americans. But it didn\u2019t recommend the binding surveillance limits sought by activists.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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