Senate Intelligence chair: China leads the world on AI rules

His remarks aired shortly after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took an aggressive tone about Beijing's advances in AI development and regulation. It "would be profoundly dangerous to the United States from a national defense perspective, but also certainly from an economic perspective" if China leads the world on the technology, Cruz said Thursday. Warner is worried the Chinese government will use AI on an "offensive basis, or on a misinformation and deceptive basis against the balance of the world." He also noted that Beijing has a head start on both the U.S. and EU when it comes to regulating the…