{"id":19433,"date":"2017-11-02T20:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T20:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/11\/02\/china-on-path-to-eclipse-us-with-ai-warns-google-head\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:54:33","slug":"china-on-path-to-eclipse-us-with-ai-warns-google-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/industry\/techwatch\/2017\/11\/02\/china-on-path-to-eclipse-us-with-ai-warns-google-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Schmidt: US losing edge in AI to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=96df9204-d8c7-4995-a8de-4679e69f4286\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-96df9204-d8c7-4995-a8de-4679e69f4286.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Unless the U.S. launches a national initiative on artificial intelligence and considers immigration changes, China is likely to eclipse America as the dominant force in AI, Google\u2019s top executive has warned.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Unless the U.S. launches a national initiative on artificial intelligence and considers immigration changes, China is likely to eclipse America as the dominant force in AI, Google\u2019s top executive warned Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet and the chairman of the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Innovation Board, said the U.S. needs to \u201cget our act together\u201d if it doesn\u2019t want to fall behind on the technology that could determine the future of both the defense and commercial sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the last year, Beijing released a formal AI strategy, which Schmidt, speaking at an event organized by the Center for a New American Security, said should set alarm bells ringing in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s pretty simple. By 2020, they will have caught up. By 2025, they will be better than us. By 2030, they will dominate the industries of AI,\u201d Schmidt said, describing the plan. And, he added, Beijing is on track to meet that; the CEO predicts China will reach parity with the U.S. sometime in the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey have announced their strategy, so you\u2019re crazy to treat them as somehow second-class citizens,\u201d Schmidt said of China. And if America thinks China \u201cwon\u2019t produce people who can do this, you\u2019re wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the U.S., the only option is what Schmidt referred to as a Sputnik moment \u2014 a national movement to focus research efforts and funding on understanding this technology and maintaining a definitive technological edge. That means investing heavily into basic research, something Schmidt noted the Trump administration\u2019s first budget cut, as compared to previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is the moment where the government, collectively with private industry, needs to say these technologies are important,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you believe this is as important as I suspect all of us do, and certainly I believe, then we need to get our act together as a country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While China is acting to strengthen its knowledge base, Schmidt warned that America is hamstringing itself thanks to tough immigration rules that block some of the world\u2019s best and brightest from coming to the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cShockingly, some of the very best people are in countries that we won\u2019t let into America. 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