Washington's AI plan creates battlefield
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP signed a presidential decree on Feb 11 requiring the federal government to put more resources and funds into the artificial intelligence research and promotion. Li Zheng, a US studies researcher at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, commented in an article for Beijing News:
The decree is tantamount to a master plan for the development of AI in the United States, as it sets out the government should support fundamental research, resource sharing, rules making, talent cultivation and international promotion.
Yet, to make it work, the US government has to overcome not a few practical obstacles. As some US media have observed, the presidential order is short on details and operability, as it does not delegate powers and autonomy to other relevant parties that are crucial to AI development, instead it concentrates power with the government. But it does not promise any concrete inputs.
