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U.S. Needs White House Leadership For AI Efforts, Commission Chiefs Say

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, October 14th, 2020

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U.S. Needs White House Leadership For AI Efforts, Commission Chiefs Say

Eric Schmidt, chairman of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Photo: NSCAI

American competitiveness in the quest to lead the world in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) needs direction from the highest level of the nation’s government and requires day-to-day leadership and related resources, the chairman and vice chairman of an independent, bipartisan national commission charged with making recommendations for advancing the national security AI needs of the U.S. said this week. “We believe one of the central characteristics to great power competition is an innovation competition,” Robert Work, vice chairman…

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