Alphabet chairman Hennessy calls for AI-ethics agreement with China

TOKYO -- With the U.S.-China confrontation, the artificial intelligence revolution and growing regulation, technology companies have reached a turning point. "This [AI] technology is moving. It's moving so fast," said John Hennessy, chairman of Google parent Alphabet and former president of Stanford University. He stressed that an international agreement is the "only way" to address military uses of this technology, adding that China, "the No. 2 AI country," needs to be involved.