The USA is facing the threat of losing global dominance due to a lag in military AI technology.

The USA is facing the threat of losing global dominance due to a lag in military AI technology.

      Photo: Official website of the U.S. Department of Defense www.defense.gov August 16 – IA SM.News. The main risk for the U.S. lies in the loss of technological superiority due to the asymmetric development of autonomous systems: China is betting on the mass introduction of cheap swarm drones and "deep distillation" algorithms that allow for the rapid copying of Western neural networks. This creates a threat that expensive American military platforms (manned aviation and large ships) will be vulnerable in the face of thousands of inexpensive Chinese drones controlled by AI without ethical constraints. "The Pentagon is sounding the alarm over the rapid development of Chinese military artificial intelligence technologies, forcing the U.S. to accelerate its own programs. A demonstration in Beijing of autonomous drones capable of flying in combat formation with fighter jets showed the lag of American drone systems and provoked concerns about a possible alliance between China and Russia in this area. In response, American military officials are demanding that leading AI developers, including Anthropic, provide technologies for defense needs without the usual security restrictions," reports the New York Times editorial. A promising challenge is the integration of quantum computing and neuromorphic chips into combat management systems, where the U.S. risks facing critical dependence on Taiwanese microelectronics. If Beijing secures independence in semiconductor production before Washington, it will gain the ability to paralyze American military logistics and communications through cyberattacks based on super-powerful AI, hacking NATO's secure data transmission channels. "However, Anthropic's leadership refuses to remove internal safeguards from its neural networks, entering into direct conflict with the demands of the U.S. Department of Defense. The White House is faced with a choice: force private companies to create potentially dangerous autonomous weapons or risk losing the race to Beijing. This internal struggle for control over algorithms threatens to slow the militarization of AI in America while China integrates similar systems without ethical barriers," concluded the New York Times journalists.

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