{"id":49396,"date":"2023-05-25T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/25\/pentagon-wont-pause-pursuit-of-ai-cio-sherman-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:34:47","slug":"pentagon-wont-pause-pursuit-of-ai-cio-sherman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2023\/05\/25\/pentagon-wont-pause-pursuit-of-ai-cio-sherman-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon won\u2019t pause pursuit of AI, CIO Sherman says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ST. LOUIS \u2014 The U.S. public and private sectors cannot afford to pause their pursuits of artificial intelligence, as some have called for, amid an international race for technological supremacy, according to Pentagon Chief Information Officer John Sherman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital luminaries including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters and Twitter\u2019s Elon Musk, alongside academics and others, signed an open letter<\/a> in March advocating for powerful AI development to proceed \u201conly once we are confident their effects\u201d will be manageable and net positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But doing so, Sherman said May 24 at the GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis, risks ceding AI hegemony to China or Russia, powers the U.S. considers premier national security threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said this in other venues, and I\u2019m going to say it here today, that I know some have advocated for taking a knee for six months,\u201d he said. \u201cNo. Not at the Department of Defense<\/a>, not the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t