סין מתכננת ייצור המוני של רובוטים דמויי אדם — פרשנות

Beijing is pledging to mass-produce humanoid robots with its own technology in the next two years. But does China have the upper hand in the robotics field? And could it give Beijing an edge on future battlegrounds? We spoke with Casey Fleming, Chief Executive Officer of Black Ops Partners, to find out more. Casey Fleming, thank you so much for joining us. Great to have you back on the show. Thank you. To begin, reports are noting that China is planning to mass-produce human-like robots. What are the military implications here? That's exactly that. The whole focus is on business, technology, commercial use and applications. But what's missing is China's full intent to lead the military side. So you can look at future soldiers to be humanoid robots. And that's where China's focus is, not just to dominate manufacturing and difficult industries like harsh environment, like EV cars, computers, cell phones, that kind of thing. The military application is where everybody needs to be focused on this thing. The CCP always thinks in terms of military first and commercialized innovation second. And how will these humanoid robots change warfare? You can actually see that. Think about where we were 10 years ago with technology, 20 years ago with technology. And look how fast it's moving today with artificial intelligence and all that. You need to plug those two in together in the formula and understand that it's a very dark scenario when you're looking at these humanoid robots that are expendable if it's in a wartime situation. And they can get vantage points that human warriors and human soldiers wouldn't have. So the point is the United States needs to be working with the free world on our answer to that, whether to eliminate that opportunity for the CCP to use humanoid robots in the military, either eliminate that or have better robots. On that note, in this sector, who has the lead? Is it the US? Is it China? The answer is both, because China has been stealing our IP, whether it's through students in universities or professors in universities, where we actually have partnered with China and given them $30 million grants for artificial intelligence. So either we give it to them through universities or companies where China invests in companies as well, or they steal it. If they can't get it, they steal it. And the point is that China has an extremely extensive cybersecurity capability that only gets better for them and worse for us by the day. And there is the meeting between President Biden and Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping. What is the message the US should be sending to the CCP? That we're not going to tolerate the CCP's advances, their unrestricted wartime advances. We're wise to their game, we're wise to their strategy. Yeah, of course, we have to play nice from a diplomatic standpoint, but my point is, we have to tell the CCP, we know your game, and it's a whole-of-nation game against the free world in the US. And we should have a whole-of-nation response to that strategy of the CCP to completely take over and dominate the rest of the world. So we need to let them know that, you know, we're the big dog in town and the CCP can do all their blustering, but they need to understand that at some point, if you poke the dog or poke the bear, it's going to get pretty serious. So you know, a lot of what we do is for show. We don't want to discourage China being a trading partner. But how do you do that when they're committed, they are our committed enemy, they are committed to unrestricted warfare, and they're committed to stealing all of our intellectual property, therefore our revenue, profit, and jobs, which is our economy and funds our national security. So when you take off industries and you completely replace those industries inside of China directed by the CCP, that revenue now supports their national security, and we don't have that revenue to support our national security. So it's very serious. So what you see with Xi Jinping and President Biden in the U.S., it's them playing nice for show. But understand that as soon as Xi Jinping gets back on his airplane, it's all let's destroy the U.S. When it comes to actual deterrence, then what are the steps the U.S. needs to take? First and foremost, the United States needs to set policy and law that we do not allow any foreign influence, whether it's lobbying or whether it's being paid for influence, anything to do with an enemy. We don't have to, we can call it an adversary, but it's absolutely an enemy. So foreign influence needs to be banned, whether it's verbal, any type of assistance from a monetary assistance or intellectual property assistance has to be banned. And if you're caught doing it, it needs to suffer the same penalties as treason. Because you have to understand, it's a wartime situation. We don't have to call it war, but we better be acting like it's war. A lot at stake for sure. Casey Fleming, thank you so much for your time. Thanks for having me.