By Robert Schmad | Washington Examiner
In 2018, a prestigious Chinese university announced to the world that it intended to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster China’s military. Since then, America’s top AI company has hired dozens of its graduates.
Tsinghua University has gone all in on pursuing AI research and development for China’s People’s Liberation Army. You Zheng, one of the university’s vice presidents, went as far as to declare the institution’s enthusiastic involvement in the Chinese Communist Party’s “military-civil fusion” strategy.
“In accordance with the central government’s requirements, Tsinghua University has closely integrated the national strategy of military-civilian integration with the strategy of building a strong country in artificial intelligence,” You said. “Tsinghua University is entrusted by the Science and Technology Commission of the Military Commission to build a high-end military intelligence laboratory. From the perspective of basic theory and core technology, military intelligence and general artificial intelligence have commonalities. Therefore, Tsinghua University regards the construction of a high-end military intelligence laboratory as a core tool to serve the strategy of building a strong country in artificial intelligence.”