China won’t pause AI development, so the US would be insane to

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The newest cultural-political fad? Call for a “pause” in artificial intelligence development. As columnist Dominic Pino observes, politicians can’t actually tell us what this “pause” should entail.

That’s a tell that these pausers are performing for public opinion. On this issue at least, President Donald Trump sees the bigger picture. He knows that America currently holds the global initiative on AI. He knows that the United States must retain that initiative or suffer its gravest defeat in history.

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