US Defence secretary Mark Esper
The Chinese also are developing AI technologies to strengthen the authoritarian control of the Communist Party of China over the population.
“All signs point to the construction of a 21st-century surveillance state designed to censor speech and deny basic human rights on an unprecedented scale,” Esper said, noting the incarceration of an estimated 1 million Muslim Uighurs in western China.
Esper decried what he said were foreign firms and multinational corporations inadvertently or tacitly providing technology and research for China’s AI programs.
US artificial intelligence programs will be consistent with capabilities that uphold American values of freedom and democracy and protect fundamental belief in liberty and human rights, Esper said. (Come on! whom are you trying to fool here ?)
“The question is not whether AI will be used by militaries around the world. It will be,” Esper said. “The real question is whether we let authoritarian governments dominate AI and by extension the battlefield or other industry.”
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