The US is increasingly treating frontier artificial intelligence as a strategic national security asset, with Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe likening the most capable AI models to nuclear weapons.
“In conversations with many of the president’s other national security and economic security advisors, we’re talking about the impact of these frontier AI models,” Ratcliffe said at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington.
“It would be… not misplaced to refer to their capabilities as akin to digital nuclear weapons.”
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