January 6, 2025 | The Wall Street Journal
Trump Can Keep America’s AI Advantage
China is trying to catch up. The U.S. needs proactive development efforts and strong export controls.
January 6, 2025 | The Wall Street Journal
Trump Can Keep America’s AI Advantage
China is trying to catch up. The U.S. needs proactive development efforts and strong export controls.
Excerpt
Legislators on both sides of the aisle recognize that the U.S. must lead the world in artificial intelligence to preserve national security. This gives the incoming Trump administration a chance to establish a historic advantage for the U.S. and the free world.
AI will likely become the most powerful and strategic technology in history. By 2027, AI developed by frontier labs will likely be smarter than Nobel Prize winners across most fields of science and engineering. It will be able to use all the senses and interfaces of a human working virtually—text, audio, video, mouse, keyboard control and internet access—to complete complex tasks that would take people months or years, such as designing new weapons or curing diseases. Imagine a country of geniuses contained in a data center.
Mr. Amodei is CEO and a co-founder of Anthropic, which makes the AI system Claude. Mr. Pottinger is chairman of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He served as U.S. deputy national security adviser, 2019-21.