The United States has a "healthy," but tenuous lead over China in artificial intelligence and quantum computing, according to the head of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. Jason Metheny, the director of IARPA, an organization within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence tasked with running advanced research programs for the U.S. intelligence community, said the United States has a tendency to be "alarmist" when it comes to other nations' technological advancements. "I'm not a catastrophist when it...
