A functional, cooperative Congress would help to understand the issues, and allocate funds to take corrective measures. Many in Congress seem to take their marching orders from powerful lobbyists with very specific agendas. It's been this way since the so-called "Citizens United" ruling.

I won't be more specific about the single-issue zealot lobbyist org that controls the president and almost every congressperson. That would get me flagged again. It just shows how they're everywhere and very easily triggered.

The US is behind China in science because we're a democracy and they're authoritarian? That's an interesting point of view. The article reads more like advocacy than analysis.

Whenever people ask Google, Meta, Microsoft, or Twitter why their tools are polarising friendships, doing the Nazi salute, or stealing copyrighted material, they say: "Hey, we didn't know our AI was doing that. We didn't even know it could do that."

Well, next time they find Chinese malware on the phone of the NSA director, China should just say: "We didn't know Bruce AI was hacking phones! We only trained it to recommend products on Alibaba."

I guess what I'm trying to say is, with AI becoming so popular and quantum computers around the corner, either we all get serious about the truth or no one will. Because big tech companies in the US are lying through their teeth, about the AI they're building for military use, about the satellites they're launching, about everything. Then they tell the world, "they're bad, we're good." That doesn't work anymore. More and more developing countries are partnering with China, and perceptions are shifting. While the US focuses only on the cyber war, China is winning the tech, cyber, and diplomatic wars.

For me, the turning point was Covid-19. While the US was selling vaccines to wealthy countries, China was donating them to developing ones and saving lives. It shipped over a billion doses across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In my country, China is seen as the good guy now.