Pentagon's first chief software officer resigned last month saying China will dominate US in AI and bioengineering tech

Nicholas Chaillan, age 37. He said he thought it was already a done deal and that the US would have no competitive chance in 15-20 years.

He said many government departments in the US were run by people who weren't really experts in that field. He also criticized Google-like tech giants for not wanting to cooperate with the USgov over ethics issues.

US SoD wants a $1.5b investment to develop AI faster.