~  Del Beccaro on Fox: US accuses China of ‘industrial-scale’ campaigns to steal AI secrets ahead of Trump’s Beijing trip

Del Beccaro: China’s communist system does not provide a profit motive to innovators, but it does reward theft. The computer advancements that we now call AI and quantum computing only enhance China’s ability to engage in that theft.

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