Sarah Wynn-Williams, who served as director of global public policy at Meta (formerly Facebook) from 2011 to 2017, is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism about her experiences at the tech giant.
Her testimony will focus on accusations that Meta executives undermined US national security by helping China advance in what she calls the “artificial intelligence arms race.”
In prepared remarks obtained by news outlets, Wynn-Williams claims that Meta began briefing the Chinese Communist Party as early as 2015. These briefings allegedly focused on emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
“The explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies,” Wynn-Williams states in her draft testimony. She suggests there is a “straight line” connecting these briefings to recent reports that China is developing...
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