*Eric Schmidt: I Used to Run Google. Silicon Valley Could Lose to China.* /We can’t win the technology wars without the federal government’s help./ By Eric Schmidt Dr. Schmidt is the chairman of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the Defense Innovation Board. He is the former chairman and C.E.O. of Google. Feb. 27, 2020 America’s companies and universities innovate like no other places on earth. We are garage start-ups, risk-taking entrepreneurs and intrepid scholars exploring new advances in science and technology. But that is only part of the story. Many of Silicon Valley’s leaders got their start with grants from the federal government — including me. My graduate work in computer science in the 1970s and ’80s was funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. [...] continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opinion/eric-schmidt-ai-china.html