AI Superpower and Global Competition

We are the AI superpower.

We are ahead of China. I think we're about a year ahead.

I think we will continue moving ahead.

We probably used to have 50 or 60 percent of the compute power in the world.

We'll probably soon be at 80.

And that is an incredible national advantage. It really is a tool.

I think of it sometimes like a firearm.

It can be used for extraordinary virtue and

extraordinary mischief.

And I think we just don't have our heads around

yet precisely how to wield this thing and who ought to have it.

So that's what we're doing.

I'm running a lot of the AI effort for the administration.

And what we are trying to calibrate

is there's an innovation race between us and the Chinese that we just cannot lose.

If the Chinese were ahead of us in this, I can tell you the mischief

and the havoc that they would wreak and that the leverage they would

have over us would just be that. I don't even want to think about it.

It's unconscionable.