Former Google CEO: The U.S. isn’t playing to win the tech race

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Thursday warned that China could soon displace the United States as the world’s technological leader, threatening U.S. values and the American way of life. “The United States is not playing to win,” he said during a National Defense Industry Association artificial intelligence conference. Schmidt is a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and until last September was an adviser to the Pentagon. “The Chinese are competing to become the world’s leading...