Google Chief: China's Military Wants To 'Dominate' Artificial Intelligence

Daily Mail: Eric Schmidt warns China will overtake the US in AI by 2025 and says Trump is to blame

* Trump's 2018 budget request slashes funds for basic science and research by $4.3 billion, roughly 13 percent compared to 2016
* Schmidt said this was key to AI research continuing in the US
* Hit out at Trump's multicountry travel ban and other immigration policies

Alphabet boss Eric Schmidt has warned the Chinese are poised to erase a key American advantage — and says the Trump administration is helping them.

'I'm assuming our [U.S.] lead will continue over the next five years and then that China will catch up extremely quickly,' the Google leader told the Center for New American Security's Paul Scharre at the Artificial Intelligence & Global Security Summit on Wednesday, according to Defense One.

Schmidt, who also chairs the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, said the key difference was the importance the Chinese government put on AI - and slammed Donald Trump's administration for

falling behind.

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