No to an AI armistice with China

The United States is engaged in an unspoken arms race with the Chinese Communist Party over a technology that will change the world. Artificial intelligence will revolutionize warfare, with some analysts comparing it to the advent of nuclear weapons nearly eight decades ago.

Some have argued that the U.S. and China should reach an “armistice” over AI, but this would be a grave mistake. Beijing is Washington’s sole peer adversary. China is engaged in the largest military buildup in recent history and seeks to supplant the U.S. as the world’s superpower. And China has shown a willingness to employ all the tools at its disposal against the United States: political, diplomatic, and economic.