US Warns of ‘Industrial-Scale’ Efforts by China to Extract AI Technology

The memo comes just weeks before a planned meeting in Beijing between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
US Warns of ‘Industrial-Scale’ Efforts by China to Extract AI Technology
White House Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios gives a speech on the last day of the Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov. 7, 2019. Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images
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The White House said on April 23 that China and other foreign adversaries are carrying out “industrial-scale campaigns” to extract advanced American artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

In a memo addressed to federal agencies, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, stated that while the United States remains a global leader in AI, officials have evidence that foreign entities—primarily based in China—are systematically targeting U.S. frontier AI systems.

Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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