Lutnick, lawmakers discuss Commerce’s tech security efforts at approps hearing

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick highlighted security efforts to counter China in the artificial intelligence space in a June 5 appearance before House appropriators.

China, Lutnick told lawmakers, is “trying to copy our technology and win the race for AI supremacy. They are behind us, but they are working with a central government out to get us, right, to beat us so that they will have intellectual superiority over us.”

The Commerce chief emphasized, “There is an AI race and [the...