US Cybersecurity At A ‘Kindergarten Level’ Compared To China, Former Pentagon Official Says

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US Cybersecurity At A ‘Kindergarten Level’ Compared To China, Former Pentagon Official Says

Ailan Evans
Tech Reporter
October 11, 2021 11:18 AM ET
 

A former Department of Defense official said he left the Pentagon in protest over the United States’ inability to compete with China technologically.

Nicolas Chaillan, former chief software officer at the U.S. Air Force, told the Financial Times that China’s progress in artificial intelligence, cyber security and machine learning was much more advanced than that of the United States and that China’s eventual dominance on the world stage was inevitable.

“We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years,” Chaillan said. “Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion.” (RELATED: Chinese Bot Network Used Social Media To Encourage Asian American Protests, Researchers Find)

Chaillan argued that the U.S. was not sufficiently investing in relevant technologies, spending money on expensive military hardware rather than software, adding that the U.S. was too concerned with ethical issues surrounding new technologies such as artificial intelligence. He also attributed the United States’ declining competitive edge to tech companies like Google’s unwillingness to work with the Department of Defense (DOD).

https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/11/china-cybersecurity-kindergarten-pentagon/

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Pentagon Tech Chief Quits in Frustration, Says US Has No “Fighting Chance” Against China
"Whether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal."
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In a blistering new interview with the Financial Times, the Pentagon’s former chief software officer said that he resigned in protest of slow technological innovation in the United States — and, in a provocative twist, opined that China is dominating in the space, particularly at developing advanced artificial intelligence.

“We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years,” Nicolas Chaillan, who quit the Defense Department in September, told the newspaper in his first interview since leaving the post. “Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion.”
Kindergarten Level

Chaillan’s complaints are numerous. He blasted cybersecurity in some parts of the US government as “kindergarten level,” decried lack of cooperation between the US military and its tech sector, and said that he had wasted his time “fixing basic cloud things and laptops.”

Most of all, though, he seems furious that China is pulling ahead in the realms of artificial intelligence, machine learning and cyberattack capability. In a particularly grim critique, he complained that US tech giants like Google have been hesitant to dive into particularly controversial AI research, whereas Beijing isn’t held back by those pesky ethical debates.
 
https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-tech-chief-quits-china

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Former Senior Level Pentagon Leader Sounds the Alarm, China Has Won the AI War and Will Dominate the Planet
Steve Straub By Steve Straub
Published October 11, 2021 at 8:11am
 

The United States and it’s military appears to be currently led by the most defeatist, incompetent, and anti-American group of people in modern history.

One former senior level Pentagon leader is sounding the alarm, claiming that the USA has already lost the AI battle to China and in his opinion we might as well give it up and praise our new Chinese overlords.

Via the Financial Times:

The Pentagon’s first chief software officer said he resigned in protest at the slow pace of technological transformation in the US military, and because he could not stand to watch China overtake America.

https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/former-senior-level-pentagon-leader-sounds-alarm-china-won-ai-war-will-dominate-planet

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It took some massive stones,as well as a genuine committment to America for him to have quit his job and go public with his complaints.

He had to have known doing so would mean he would never again be able to work in his chosen professional field. Companies with government contracts will be afraid of hiring him because it might cause them to lose contracts,and for all practical purposes,those companies were his only employment opportunities.