In a 750-page report to Congress published on March 1, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) outlined the threats posed by Beijing, which has been striving to replace the United States as the world’s next AI superpower.
If left uncared for, the communist regime’s rapid progress in the AI field would see China surpass America within the next ten years, suggested the commission headed by former Google chairman Eric Schmidt, along with executives from Microsoft, Oracle, and Amazon.
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“China is organized, resourced, and determined to win the technology competition,” it stated, adding that the regime “is executing a centrally-directed systematic plan to extract AI knowledge from abroad through espionage, talent recruitment, technology transfer, and investments.”
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The heavy digital confidence of Americans could make AI systems a suitable tool for opponents like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to magnify influence actions in future warfare, making every citizen or organization a potential target, the report said.
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AI-enabled malign propaganda can send a million individualized messages that provide to each recipients’ digital activities, emotion, and social circle—as in the case of Beijing’s influence campaign during the 2020 Taiwanese elections and automated bots attacking a National Basketball Association General Manager, whose pro-Hong Kong tweet had provoked the regime.
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AI could also help state actors collect personal data of private American citizens to “model how best to manipulate behavior or cause harm,” stimulate cyber-attacks, and program biotechnology innovations with little thought to bioethical standards, the report said.
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“Massive genomic data sets at places like BGI Group (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute), coupled with China’s now global genetic data collection platform and ‘all-of-nation’ approach to AI, will make them a formidable competitor in the bio realm,” it stated.
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BGI, a leading Chinese genomics company based in Shenzhen, built the country’s first national-level gene storage bank called China National GeneBank with state support and funding. It is also a main global supplier of COVID-19 testing kits that have given it a path to extensive genetic datasets. With AI, opponents could engineer a pathogen that targets a genetic profile or enhance the physical or mental strength of human beings, according to the commission report.
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“The United States cannot afford to look back in ten years and be ‘surprised’ by the biotechnology equivalent of Huawei,” the report stated.
Russia and China’s lack of oversight and accountability also create an unlevel playfield in the military as autonomous weapon systems proliferate, the report said, pointing to China’s active attempts to export autonomous armed drones to the Middle East that can lead “autonomous, lethal, and targeted strikes.”
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