Commentary
The U.S.-China chip war is heating up. The world’s two largest superpowers are clashing over semiconductors that determine increasingly more of our lives, from when the smart toaster pops in the morning to what we write to our friends, family, and colleagues using ChatGPT in the afternoon.
The latest silicon wafers, with transistors as tiny as a virus, fuel the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems that will determine success on 21st-century military and economic battlefields. AI could extinct the human race if it escapes human control and determines its own goals or comes under the control of a malicious individual like a hacker….