Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden‘s national security adviser, suggested Monday that artificial intelligence poses the greatest geopolitical threat to the United States.
Sullivan was asked during the penultimate White House press briefing of Biden’s term in office to assess the greatest threat to U.S. national security for the incoming Trump administration.
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Sullivan opened by noting that he could point to either China or Russia as easy answers but instead responded with “the scale, pace, and breathtaking speed with which AI is going to transform” the world.
“It’s either going to work for us, or it’s going to work against us, and in order put to work for us,” Sullivan continued. “We have to stay ahead, and we have to shape the rules.”
Biden is preparing to issue one final AI order later this week, which will reportedly solidify language surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in national defense. Sullivan said Biden administration officials have not been coordinating with President-elect Donald Trump’s team on those actions but have informed them of “what we intended to do.”
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Sullivan urged the Trump team not to make AI a “partisan issue” and ensure that “it’s America making that technology, rather than an adversary making that technology.”
Monday’s briefing can be seen in full below.
