At the World Economic Forum, Christopher Wray emphasized the importance of cooperation against actors that do not comply with the rule of law and international norms.
Artificial intelligence was also a prominent topic at the World Economic Forum held in Davos last week, and in one of his panels, the director of the FBI spoke about the national security threats posed by China’s artificial intelligence program. Christopher Raywhich already last July Categorically warned Western companies aiming for China to control key industries by “plundering” its intellectual property has now exposed the dangers of its “unconstrained rule of law” endeavors and that Beijing already has a “larger hacking program than any other country”.
Wray finds that machine learning (ML), like nuclear expertise, is being used for the good or bad of the world, and China is using it to enhance the capabilities of state-sponsored hackers. China is often accused of trying to extend its influence over other countries through its investments in infrastructure, and the United States sees China’s growing economic influence and military might as the most important long-term security challenge. Today, the two powers regularly and not without foundation accuse each other of such things as recently, for example The militarization of outer space.
He expects a step up from cooperation
According to the FBI director, China’s artificial intelligence program “relies on massive amounts of intellectual property and sensitive data stolen in recent years” and that the program itself is being used to obtain intellectual property and promote repression. Moreover, the latter not only takes place at home, in China, but in Wray’s assessment is increasingly becoming a Chinese export product. like From Amnesty International news coverage It turns out that the CEO of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince Representing a slightly more positive view, he said in the same session: The fact that right now “there are more good guys than bad guys” makes him optimistic.
Prince also acknowledged that the winner of the AI race is whoever has the most data, and that data collection in Western countries has always been under more stringent conditions than in China. As Christopher Ray’s somewhat one-sided formulation is, in a world where these technologies are available for both good and bad, it is clear that the rule of law and international norms only constrain the good guys, and this gives the opponent a competitive edge. In this case, cooperation gives him the opportunity to always be one step ahead of those who seek to do harm, who stand no chance if everyone cooperates against them.
