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美国国防部国防创新单元（DIU）主任迈克尔·布朗23日在国防工业协会（NDIA）“国家安全人工智能研讨与展览”线上会议称，作为美国紧迫的威胁，中国在人工智能（AI）技术发展上已经制订了更为综合、系统、长远的战略，能确保全力以赴实现世界第一的战略目标。美国要像中国一样，认真论证AI在未来20、30和40年的发展战略，这种长期投资定会产生溢出效应，正如互联网、GPS、微电子以及其它技术创新等，为美国巨大的经济繁荣带来了推动力，也确保了美国的国家安全。他认为，与中国在AI技术上开展“马拉松”式的长期竞争，应该聚焦在4个方面。一是强化基础研究与发展投资；二是大力发展人才队伍；三是确保美国政府和机构整体协同；四是在全国供应链内搞一场产权变革。

Defense Innovation Leader Stresses Importance of U.S., China Technology Race

MARCH 25, 2021 | BY TERRI MOON CRONK, DOD NEWS

As a pacing threat, China has a well-integrated, systematic, long-term strategy to make sure it’s doing the most to achieve its goal to be No. 1 in the world in technology, the director of the Defense Innovation Unit told the National Defense Industrial Association, Tuesday.

“We’re not entering a new Cold War,” said Michael Brown in a virtual, keynote address to NDIA’s National Security Artificial Intelligence Conference and Exhibition.

What he thinks is different from the former Cold War starts with China’s economic scale. China clearly has the potential to overtake the U.S. in terms of economic scale because its population is four times as large, Brown said.

Brown said one of the things the U.S. needs to do in response is think about long-term investments in technologies “[and] not to pick winners and losers to make sure we’re setting the table so we have a very robust set of commercial suppliers who can be challenging these Chinese global champions,” he explained.

If the U.S. is thinking out beyond the next 20, 30 or 40 years as China is, such an investment will have untold spillover effects, Brown said. This is where the internet, global positioning systems, miniaturized electronics and other key innovations have come from that lead to tremendous economic prosperity, which, in turn, guarantees U.S. national security, he added.

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Brown said he thinks of the technological race with China as a superpower marathon, and there are four steps the U.S. should take that will put it on the best footing for this race:

Bolster investment in basic research and development that’s both on the federal level and on the private sector side. “I think one of the advantages of federally funded R&D [research and development] is you get a very long-term time horizon and some willingness to take risks,” he said.
Invest in its talent. “We did this to create more engineers in the 1960s, and we need to similarly have an effort again, to make sure we’re creating the right STEM talent,” he said.
Ensure all U.S. departments and agencies work together. “I think this gives us an organizing principle in terms of making sure we’re leading in the tech race,” he said, noting that China is the sense of urgency that should motivate us.
Focus with the shareholder revolution in this country. “Basically, since the 1980s, we’ve been increasingly focused on efficiency of capital, [such as] what are the short-term measures in a world where you don’t have great peer competitors. But in a world where you have challenges from strategic adversaries, you probably don’t want the supply chain running through those areas. It would behoove us to make sure our capital markets are focused long enough term so we can make investments in strategic capabilities, in addition to reflecting efficiency of capital,” he concluded.

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