Biden White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan merely had “challenges and difficulties”….
CBS’s Ed O’Keefe: “And I didn’t hear you mention Afghanistan in your opening at all. How is that going to be addressed in the speech? How would he explain or defend it [inaudible]?”
Sullivan: “He will address Afghanistan in the speech, and — and it was in a sense, referenced because I said we kept America out of war … when you end a war after 20 years with all of the decisions that have piled up over that time, there are going to be challenges and difficulties, and there were challenges and difficulties in the period of the drawdown, but people predicted once we left Afghanistan, it would harm our alliances. Our alliances are at historic highs. They predicted that we would have a — a safe haven in Afghanistan for plotting terrorist attacks against the American homeland. Terrorism remains a very real concern, but President Biden pointed out before he pulled out that it’s a more deferred — diffuse and metastasized threat, including the kind of homegrown violent extremism that we saw on display in New Orleans in January. In fact, over the course of these four years, we have seen President Biden — that was the first terrorist attack that has happened on American soil. It was not connected to Afghanistan as far as we know. It was connected to inspiration from ISIS and so, President Biden believes that the decision he took has left America in a profoundly stronger position, and he will explain in his speech today why he thinks that’s the case.”
Asked by WSJ’s Ken Thomas, WH National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the greatest geopolitical threat facing the U.S. is “the scale, pace, and breathtaking speed with which AI is going to transform” the world and that the U.S., NOT China, beats them to it in determining the rules of the road.
theGrio’s April Ryan asks Biden WH National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan about AI being…RACIST!
Ryan: “Jake, going back to AI and a couple other questions, as you’re saying that it’s a huge national security issue, is there a concern about how it does not — AI is — on the national security front, is not accurately depicting or scanning people of color because we are understanding civil rights groups are very upset about that, how it’s misidentifying. Is that a concern with the national security as well?”
Sullivan “Yes, it is, of course. It’s a — if you think about the series of concerns that are raised by the advent of artificial intelligence, they range across economic, military, and social risks. One of those is bias. And there have been a lot of studies to show that bias is a genuine challenge when it comes to artificial intelligence and the ways in which that could undermine social cohesion in the United States and globally has national security —”
Ryan: “And terrorism.”
Sullivan “— and terrorism has national security implications and it’s something that we have to contend with. It is part of the President’s executive order on national — artificial intelligence alongside a number of these other risks.”
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Sullivan: Afghanistan withdrawal merely “challenges & difficulties”, U.S. beats China on AI, AI RACIST