Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive who chairs the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, says the US will hurt its own innovation by barring co-operation with Chinese researchers in the artificial intelligence field, in a warning that came as some Trump administration officials push to decouple technology from China.
Speaking at the release of the commission’s interim report on how America should approach AI, Mr Schmidt said the US relied on Chinese technology experts and should make sure they remained in the research chain.
“One of the things that the commission investigated pretty carefully was, how are we on China today? And the answer which some people may not want to hear is that we are dependent upon Chinese researchers and Chinese graduate students,” Mr Schmidt said. “A decoupling at the human level would hurt the United States.