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According to a recent report, government officials in the United States and Israel are considering a joint effort to develop a large-scale research and development campus for artificial intelligence in Israel’s Western Negev desert.
The plan, which is called Project Spire, would create an advanced fabrication and design center to produce, assemble, and test a new generation of computer chips to meet the demands of the rapidly developing artificial intelligence era.
The report in the Wall Street Journal was written by two members of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. It described how the United States is evaluating three sites proposed by Israel’s government in the Negev for the project.
The facility is said to be envisioned as a high security development, built around a secure perimeter. Safeguards would be put in place to protect the program from attempts to breach the facility electronically and compromise the research being done there.
Ambassador Reda Mansour — an Israeli Druze diplomat, poet, and historian — is the senior director of global resource management at the Technion, in which capacity he strengthens the Technion’s ties with its friends and supporters in Israel and around the world.