‘Absolutely Not True’: Army CIO Answers Claim US Has Already Lost To China In AI
"If you looked at both what we have in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, across the federal government and our industrial partners, we have the best AI technology," Army CIO Ray Iyer said.
By Colin Clark on October 13, 2021 at 4:44 PM
AUSA: In the face of bold claims by a former senior Air Force official that the United States has “no competing fighting chance” against the Chinese military, the Army’s CIO rejected the idea when asked about it here.
“We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion,” the former first chief software officer of the Air Force, Nicolas Chaillan, in an interview with the Financial Times.
Chaillan told the FT that the US failure to tackle Chinese advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cyber capabilities was “putting his children’s future at risk.” Some US cyber defense efforts were, he said, at “kindergarten level.” (Chaillan later took to social media to say he “never said [the US] lost” already, but would if it didn’t take action.)
“It’s absolutely not true,” the Army CIO, Raj Iyer, said, rejecting Chaillan’s assessment.
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/10/absolutely-not-true-army-cio-answers-claim-us-has-already-lost-to-china-in-ai/
