Artificial intelligence and its seemingly limitless financial prospects are raising concerns that it may be a bubble about to burst. What should be even more worrying, however, is what’s coming out of the pell-mell race to create ever more powerful AI technology justified by the imperative of staying ahead of China’s counterpart efforts. 

I call what’s in prospect “FrankenAI” because, among others, even some of those involved in developing advanced artificial intelligence are warning that we’ll soon lose control of such creations and they’ll destroy the human race.  

If running such risks is impelled by the Chinese getting such capabilities first, no American company should help them acquire the technology or intellectual property that can only intensify that danger. That’s especially true if, in the process, we risk becoming more like Communist China with its AI-powered, totalitarian social credit system. 

This is Frank Gaffney.