The West must move quickly to prevent China from dominating key emerging technologies and seizing control of the “global operating system,” according to Britain’s chief cyber spy.
Jeremy Fleming, the head of the GCHQ espionage agency, claimed the West was fighting for control of technologies like artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and genetics in an uncharacteristically forthright address.
At Imperial College London, Fleming stated, “Significant technical leadership is migrating East”.
According to Fleming, world powers will compete to define the future by producing the greatest technology, hiring the smartest people, and establishing the global standards that will govern the technologies.
