Winning the National Security AI Competition: A Practical Guide for Government and Industry Leaders

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023

C. Whitlock, F. StricklandWinning the National Security AI Competitionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8814-6_2

2. How Leaders Should Think and Talk About AI

Chris Whitlock¹   and Frank Strickland²

(1)

Colorado Springs, CO, USA

(2)

Centreville, VA, USA

 

“Thirty years ago, a math whiz told me that AI is when you ask a machine a question and it responds: ‘You asked the wrong question.’ Then it tells you the answer to the right question. Everything else is just fancy processing, meaning math and algorithms.”

—Rich Haver

Former senior official in U.S. intelligence and industry senior executive

“Let’s be real. A lot of this talk about AI is just bull****”

—Matt Carroll ...