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| Sunak to Talk Tech With Biden, but the War in Ukraine Is Likely to Surface | Sunak to Talk Tech With Biden, but the War in Ukraine Is Likely to Surface |
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| Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain began a two-day visit to Washington on Wednesday with a goal of aligning two allies on the challenges of artificial intelligence. But his meeting with President Biden will more likely be consumed by the here-and-now threat of Russia’s war on Ukraine. | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain began a two-day visit to Washington on Wednesday with a goal of aligning two allies on the challenges of artificial intelligence. But his meeting with President Biden will more likely be consumed by the here-and-now threat of Russia’s war on Ukraine. |
| Mr. Sunak, a self-described techie who has an M.B.A. from Stanford University, will host a summit meeting in the fall on the regulatory issues raised by A.I., part of a plan to make Britain a leader in controlling this fast-developing technology. But because Britain left the European Union in 2020, it is not part of the dialogue between the United States and the European Union on how to deal with it. | Mr. Sunak, a self-described techie who has an M.B.A. from Stanford University, will host a summit meeting in the fall on the regulatory issues raised by A.I., part of a plan to make Britain a leader in controlling this fast-developing technology. But because Britain left the European Union in 2020, it is not part of the dialogue between the United States and the European Union on how to deal with it. |
| “If the U.S. and E.U. agree, the rest of the world follows, and Brexit Britain is in danger of being squeezed out,” said Kim Darroch, a former British ambassador to the United States. As sensible it is to confront the challenge of A.I., he added, Britain had more promising avenues to pursue with Washington. | “If the U.S. and E.U. agree, the rest of the world follows, and Brexit Britain is in danger of being squeezed out,” said Kim Darroch, a former British ambassador to the United States. As sensible it is to confront the challenge of A.I., he added, Britain had more promising avenues to pursue with Washington. |
| For example, Britain’s robust military support for the Ukrainian Army has kept it a central player in the Western response to Russia’s invasion. As it has in previous phases of the war, Britain’s readiness to train Ukrainian pilots on combat jets was a catalyst for Mr. Biden’s recent shift in favor of training Ukrainians on F-16 fighter jets and eventually supplying planes. | For example, Britain’s robust military support for the Ukrainian Army has kept it a central player in the Western response to Russia’s invasion. As it has in previous phases of the war, Britain’s readiness to train Ukrainian pilots on combat jets was a catalyst for Mr. Biden’s recent shift in favor of training Ukrainians on F-16 fighter jets and eventually supplying planes. |
| Those decisions took on new urgency after the calamitous breach this week of the Kakhovka dam, on the front line, which Ukrainian officials blamed on Russian troops, who control the dam, planting explosives and which Moscow blamed on Ukrainian saboteurs. |