Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday compared the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI) to an American atomic bomb program during World War II.

“The AI race is the second Manhattan project,” Wright said in a Tuesday poston the social platform X.

During the World War II, the U.S. government’s Manhattan Project eventually succeeded in the creation of atomic weapons that the American military used against Japan in the latter half of the conflict.

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