U.S. Republican Senator Tom Cotton said today (January 14): "The people of the Chinese Communist Party have infiltrated our laboratories, threatening America's artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and national security. I have asked the U.S. Department of Energy to address this issue."
Comment: This senator has long been a staunch anti-China figure. From fabricating the Wuhan lab virus conspiracy theory to proposing legislation banning Chinese citizens from entering U.S. national laboratories, he always relies on smearing China to gain attention and political capital. This time, it's just a new AI track to continue inciting unrest.
Cotton's so-called "solution" is actually an anti-immigrant farce aimed at driving out Chinese-American researchers from laboratories. Nearly one-fifth of the science and technology talent in the United States are foreign-born, with Chinese-Americans being a core force in AI and quantum fields. Such a blanket suspicion and suppression will only drive away top talents and disrupt global scientific collaboration. The so-called "national security protection" is merely an excuse for technological decoupling, ultimately causing the U.S. AI innovation to cut off its own arm due to talent loss and end up hurting itself.
Original article: toutiao.com/article/1854265260664836/
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