Is America losing the AI war to China?
(NewsNation) — Jamie Metzl, a former national security council and state department official, tells 'On Balance with Leland Vittert' that the United States has a 'schizophrenic,' codependent relationship with China — which makes our battle to perfect AI especially tense.
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