Peter Thiel blames Silicon Valley elitism for Google’s AI work with China

Published August 2, 2019 4:21pm ET



Silicon Valley entrepreneur and President Trump ally Peter Thiel is berating Google again over its work on artificial intelligence in China, which he warns may benefit the country’s armed forces.

“A.I. is a military technology,” Thiel wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times. “Forget the sci-fi fantasy; what is powerful about actually existing A.I. is its application to relatively mundane tasks like computer vision and data analysis.”

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