![]() ![]() “All I want is a safer city,” said New Orleans city council member Freddie King III in July when he voted for the heavily surveilled city to reverse a facial recognition prohibition, allowing use of the technology by the New Orleans Police Department. implement surveillance technology, protecting safety is often a primary reason. municipalities and everyday homeowners in the U.S. In September, when China’s Suzhou Keda Technology promoted its “smart community” project involving 2,000 facial recognition-enabled cameras installed in communities in Xinghua, a city about 150 miles north of Shanghai, the company said the system would identify people and vehicles to accurately warn of security risks and improve the level of safety for residents there. Unchecked AI deployment could put risks like those on steroids in a way that threatens the foundations of our democracy,” he said. “We’ve already seen the way technology left to its own devices can widen inequality, deepen social divisions, and exacerbate political extremism. from meaningful AI regulations would be a mistake, Sheehan said. Letting China’s AI threat distract the U.S. has yet to pass any federal regulations or laws governing AI development and use, despite an explosion of AI deployment by businesses and government. Today, people including Thornberry and others working at Schmidt’s SCSP have picked up the NSCAI’s mantle in the hopes of influencing federal spending on AI and emerging tech. In an effort to stay ahead of China and combat what the report called the “chilling precedent” created by China’s use of “AI as a tool of repression and surveillance,” the commission called on the federal government to double annual non-defense funding for AI research and development to $32 billion per year by 2026. ![]() “The AI competition is also a values competition,” stated the report. I’m far more worried about the risks to our society from failing to regulate AI than the risk that we fall behind China in some aspects of the technology. AI policy and investments thus far: the 2021 final report of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Vogel’s remarks mirrored sentiments found in one of the most influential documents guiding U.S. is trust and democratic values,” Vogel said. “AI embeds our culture, and our culture in the U.S. tech like cinnamon and nutmeg in an apple pie. Miriam Vogel, co-chair of the White House National AI Advisory Committee, suggested at a POLITICO event in September that democratic values can be baked into U.S. Not only is the so-called AI race considered a competition with China for economic or technological superiority, but one of democratic values. lawmakers, national security officials, and tech investors as a key justification for blocking China’s access to tech that could advance its surveillance and military AI capabilities, as well as for increasing federal spending on unregulated AI in this country. In July, the New Orleans City Council voted to reverse its facial recognition prohibition.Ĭhina’s use of AI-based surveillance technologies to monitor and penalize minority Uyghurs is often pointed to by U.S. ![]() “It feels vaguely hypocritical, if we’re talking about China in one way, and using that as a motivation of sorts to spend more money on AI here, when metropolitan areas across the country - predominantly Black and brown communities - are negatively and directly impacted by that same technology or similar tech,” Bridgewater said during a Protocol event last week. Renard Bridgewater, a member of New Orleans’ Eye On Surveillance coalition who has advocated against surveillance tech including AI-based technologies there, questioned Thornberry’s use of China surveillance photos. “I’m far more worried about the risks to our society from failing to regulate AI than the risk that we fall behind China in some aspects of the technology,” said Matt Sheehan, a fellow in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. to deflect scrutiny or legal guardrails for its own AI practices. AI policy, some human rights and AI watchdogs worry investments in AI with military applications will become a major focus, allowing the U.S. “You have to remind people the context, the bigger picture and why it matters,” Thornberry, also a member of SCSP’s board, said.īut as national security fears of China’s AI advancements propel U.S. ![]()
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