(FT) Nicolas Chaillan, the first Pentagon chief software officer, says China has won the artificial intelligence war against the US and is heading for global dominance.
Chaillan, who describes the US cyber defenses to be at the kindergarten level, says China has made significant advances in artificial intelligence, cyber capabilities, and machine learning.
The former software chief now warns that the US has no fighting chance against China in the next 15 to 20 years. He says the emerging technologies are more critical than hardware advances, including the fifth-generation fighter jets.
Chaillan, 37, says he resigned from Pentagon’s software chief over the US’s slow technological transformation and could not watch China overtake America. He warns that the US’s failure to respond to China’s cyber and other threats puts its future generations at risk.
The ex-pentagon software chief also blames Google for failing to work with the US on AI, as well as AI ethics that has slowed down the transformation. He plans to testify before the US Congress on China’s cyber threats in the coming weeks.
