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Over a tumultuous four years, the Trump administration has steadily emphasized the importance of artificial intelligence to American competitiveness. Now President Trump must decide whether to veto what would be the government’s biggest-ever funding and strategy boost to AI.
The National Defense Authorization Act would provide $6.4 billion in federal money over five years for research on AI and its applications, and it would push Washington toward developing a national strategy on the technology.
The bill, approved by both houses of Congress, would increase federal AI spending with $4.8 billion for the National Science Foundation, $1.2 billion via the Energy Department, and $400 million for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Suzanne E. Spaulding, a Senior Advisor for the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies says, “We are fortunate in the field of cybersecurity to have a deep and growing bench of experts who also happen to be women and/or persons of color. We cannot afford to keep them on the sidelines of our efforts to help the public and policymakers understand these issues, any more than we can afford not to have them in our workforce.”
“There is nothing inherent in cybersecurity that should prevent anyone, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion, or national origin from helping to secure the essential networks on which we all rely. We are stronger when we work together,” says
The Cybersecurity 202: A Russian mega-hack is further damaging Trump’s cybersecurity legacy Joseph Marks
with Tonya Riley A Russian hacking campaign that breached the Treasury and Commerce departments and ran roughshod through critical companies across the globe is a final stain on the Trump administration’s cybersecurity legacy. National security officials are still scrambling this morning to determine the scope of that campaign, which officials say was going on for months and impacted government, consulting, technology, telecom, and oil and gas companies in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
It likely represents the largest known Russian data theft in half a decade and is a sign Trump administration efforts to constrain Russian hacking have been spotty at best.
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