Last year, speaking at a visit to a specialist technology training centre in Moscow, the Russian president Vladimir Putin gave his audience an ominous warning. “I have said it before and I will say it now,” he told reporters, “he who can establish a monopoly in artificial intelligence… will rule the world.”
That same year Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13,859, announcing the “American AI Initiative” – a Federal government strategy for advancing AI capabilities by investing in R&D and skills development, and fostering collaboration between the private sector, academia, government and “like-minded international partners”.
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