In this special episode, we sat down with Arthur Herman, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of the Quantum Alliance Initiative. He talks about the race for AI and quantum computing between the United States and China, the dangers around that, and how it’ll play out going forward. Herman said: “Military AI is a big, burgeoning area. The Chinese have understood for a long time that command over AI gives an enormous advantage on the battlefield and in terms of force and military deterrence. And that’s why that Chinese idea of civilian-military fusion, that the work that civilian companies do on artificial intelligence belongs—lock, stock, and barrel—to the government and to the military if they need that capability. There’s no choice about this. It’s a compulsory principle that’s invoked with the idea of civilian-military fusion. That means that Beijing and its military and intelligence leadership have automatic access …