America Is Blowing the AI Race. Here Are Seven Ideas To Get Back on Track.

America faces one of those rare, historic moments when government, business, schools and families could be working together to meet a truly generational challenge: winning the AI race.

So far, we’re blowing it.

Starting next year, AI companies in the U.S. will spend roughly the same in one year as the Manhattan Project, the Apollo moon landings, the Interstate Highway System and the Human Genome Project combined—about $1 trillion.

That’s just the money. The stakes are even bigger: who controls space and warfare, dominates the world economy and shapes the first technology with super-intelligence surpassing our species.