Tag: artificial intelligence

Chinese Regime Rolls Out New Plans to Overtake the US in Technology

During the annual meeting of China’s rubber-stamp legislature earlier this month, the Chinese regime proposed new plans to bolster its research and development in critical technology sectors in order to surpass the United States and achieve global dominance. Meanwhile, U.S. think tanks and lawmakers have proposed strategies to counter the threat posed by China’s tech…


US Urged to Boost AI Weapons to Counter China’s Rise

The United States must sharpen its artificial intelligence-powered tools in order not to fall behind the efforts of communist China, a U.S. national security commission has told Congress. In a 750-page report (pdf) to Congress released on March 1, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) detailed the threats posed by Beijing, which has…


Pentagon Needs to Reform Budget Process to Confront Chinese Military Threat: Report

The Pentagon needs to reform its defense budgeting process in order to better compete against China, given the rapid evolvement of emerging technologies, according to a new report. “To gain an advantage in a military competition with China, the U.S. will likely need to revise its resource allocation processes to permit faster decisions and more…


Automation to Wipe 1.5 Million Australian Jobs by 2030: Report

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will reshape Australia’s workforce and push out 1.5 million workers, or 11 percent of the labour market, by 2030, according to a new report from business and technology consultants Forrester Research. Analysing 391 occupations, Forrester found that over the next nine years, jobs involving highly structured administrative tasks, such as those in finance…


The Data-Driven New World Order

Commentary What’s the most powerful commodity in the world? Gold? Tesla electric vehicle technology? Bitcoin? Oil? Actually, it’s none of these things. As we’re now discovering, care of the Big Tech gang in Silicon Valley, the most valuable commodity in the world today—and for the foreseeable future—is data. In fact, Wired magazine has declared that,…