China’s military plans to “dominate” the artificial intelligence industry in the absence of aggressive Defense Department research, a top Silicon Valley executive warned Wednesday.

“[B]y 2030, they will dominate the industry,” Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said at an event hosted by the Center for a New American Security.

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