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Is the US losing the artificial intelligence arms race?

  • Written by James Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow in Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Is the US losing the artificial intelligence arms race?The U.S.-China rivalry extends to digital weapons.Khanh Tran, CC BY

The U.S. government, long a proponent of advancing technology for military purposes, sees artificial intelligence as key to the next generation of fighting tools.

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