Why is this happening? ES and several others on this list are traitors to our country.
"Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, has been appointed chairman of a US government artificial intelligence advisory group.
The advisory group, known as the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, will advise on the national security implications of AI and how to ensure the US remains a world leader in the field. It was first announced in May 2018.
“It is a privilege to serve on this commission and contribute to its important mission,” Schmidt said in a press release. “We plan to examine a wide range of topics relevant to national security, and I look forward to working with the other commissioners on this critical set of issues.”
The group includes 14 other tech experts. They are:
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services
Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle
Chris Darby, CEO of In-Q-Tel
Jason Matheny, former IARPA director
Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research Labs
Mignon Clyburn, Open Society Foundation fellow and former FCC commissioner
Andrew Moore, head of Google Cloud AI
Steve Chien, supervisor of the AI Group at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Lab
Ken Ford, CEO of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Jose-Marie Griffiths, president of Dakota State University
Gilman Louie, partner at Alsop Louie Partners
William Mark, director of SRI’s Information and Computing Sciences Division
Katharina McFarland, consultant at Cypress International
Schmidt is also the chair of the Defense Innovation Board, which advises the US Government’s Department of Defense on matters relating to AI.
He remains a technical advisor to Alphabet, which is Google’s parent company."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2019/01/24/ex-google-ceo-to-lead-ai-us-government-ai-advisory-group/amp/