As the tech and economic cold war between the United States and China accelerates, Silicon Valley’s leaders are capitalizing on the strife with a lobbying push for their interests in another promis…
House Speaker Mike Johnson during a press conference in Capitol Hill, Washington, on March 20, 2024. Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.
On May 1, more than 100 tech chiefs and investors, including Alex Karp, the head of defense contractor Palantir, and Roelof Botha, managing partner of venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, will come to Washington for a daylong conference and private dinner focused on drumming up more hawkishness toward China’s progress in AI.
The event highlights an unusual area of agreement between Washington and Silicon Valley, which have long clashed on topics such as data privacy, children’s online protections and even China. As tech leaders capitalize on anti-China fervor in Washington, civil society groups and academics warn that debates over competition for tech leadership could hurt efforts to regulate potential harms, such as the risks that some AI tools could kill jobs, spread disinformation and disrupt elections.
May’s event is being organized by Jacob Helberg, a senior adviser to Palantir and a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which reports to Congress on national security threats posed by China. He expanded this year’s forum from the first gathering he organized last year, which was a private dinner focused largely on the threat of TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance.
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