White House warns of ‘industrial-scale’ efforts in China to rip off U.S. AI tech

The Trump administration on Thursday accused Chinese entities of waging “industrial-scale campaigns” to rip off U.S. artificial intelligence systems, and said it will explore ways to hold the foreign actors accountable.

“There is nothing innovative about systematically extracting and copying the innovations of American industry,” Michael Kratsios, the top science and technology advisor to President Donald Trump, said in a memo on alleged Chinese “distillation” operations to train smaller AI models off of larger ones.

The U.S. government has previously accused China of targeting American AI technology and intellectual property.

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