Now obviously, mere mention of word AI sparks outrage online.
But I have a different take, and not for this particular instance but AI and military in general.
Even if the US shuts down any and all AI research and AI applications, do you think China, Russia, Iran, and others gonna do the same?
I don’t think so. Nvidia is super happy to supply expensive AI processors to China… officially or not.
It’s better to prepare preemptively than fall behind all eternity.
Look at North Korea, once they got the nukes, they became untouchable with unhinged loonies at the helm. And now South Korea and may be the US must keep throwing millions to them. They keep hacking anything and everything (except in China & Russia) they can get their hands on… without any consequences at all.
I have not seen any hacker being successfully prosecuted anywhere in the world from the “state sponsored hacking teams” of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.
IMO all of these nations are never gonna be at peace with rest of the world, so why don’t stay (or at least try to be) in the lead while you can?
Well, Transcendence from 2014 got this right.