Inside Eric Schmidt’s push to profit from an AI cold war with China

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A prominent private-sector voice amplifying rhetoric that pits the U.S. against China in a battle for AI supremacy, Schmidt’s borrowing from a Cold War-era playbook to urge the government toward decisions the AI industry wants it to make.

caption: Since 2017, Eric Schmidt has taken part in investing more than $2 billion in AI-focused companies, either personally or through funding rounds joined by his VC firm Innovation Endeavors.

By Kate Kaye
October 31, 2022

Schmidt wants the government to implement his sweeping blueprint to fight what he considers an existential threat to democracy posed by China’s AI plans, an effort that could also bolster his own commercial AI interests.
He says the U.S.’s national security and economic leadership are dependent upon spending billions to procure smarter software, bolster AI research, and build the country’s computer science talent pool. And he says he knows better than the Pentagon itself how to remove the bureaucratic blockades preventing more agile use of AI by the government.