Lt. Gen. Michael Groen (US Marine Corps, Ret.)
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shook the U.S. tech and business communities this week, with its launch of a free AI chatbot that it said could compete with major American competitors at a fraction of the cost. The DeepSeek assistant overtook ChatGPT in downloads on Apple’s app store on Monday, prompting a market frenzy that saw a tumble in the shares of major U.S. AI leaders, including Nvidia, Microsoft and Alphabet. On Wednesday, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba released a new version of its AI model, claiming it surpasses DeepSeek’s release.
The DeepSeek and Alibaba models suggest that China has worked around U.S. measures to restrict Chinese access to American-manufactured chips, and the disruption has prompted scrutiny by U.S. tech leaders — Microsoft and OpenAI are both investigating whether DeepSeek harvested data in an unauthorized manner from OpenAI’s technology, as well as the U.S. government. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the National Security Council is “looking into” potential national security implications from DeepSeek.
All these developments raise questions about the role of AI in the tech race between the U.S. and China. The Cipher Brief spoke recently – before the DeepSeek story broke – with Retired Lieutenant General Michael Groen, to discuss the impact and development of AI, particularly the China questions, and AI’s applications in the military and national security space. Lt. Gen. Groen, who served as Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center at the Department of Defense, told us he worries less about the technical challenges in AI development than the need for the U.S. military to think about integration, practical applications, and the cultural change he believes is needed for adopting AI.
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