I agree with the tone of the article but a better related article is linked on the same page, by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte: https://www.fastcomp

I agree with the tone of the article but a better related article is linked on the same page, by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte: https://www.fastcompany.com/90344450/dont-ban-huawei-do-this-instead https://www.fastcompany.com/90344450/dont-ban-huawei-do-this... Although I was in China for one week and enjoyed it, the culture feels very foreign to me because the people there seem so happy to give up privacy and any control of their government, as long as their middle class keeps growing. There is a lot of pride in China. The problem of our not having long term planning is very real, and one of the nice things about our culture, having some degree of privacy and protections on data, will hold us back in the race to develop increasingly effective AI. I have been working in the field of AI for 30+ years and to see China catching up so fast is disturbing. We are ahead, I think, in basic research, but they are ahead in consumer facing AI. I think most people in the USA don’t read technical AI papers coming out of China and see demos of their consumer facing tech. We really need to up our game, and do it quickly as far as more corporation and US government cooperation, more funding, etc. And long term, we absolutely have to start investing more resources in our educational system.