President's Most Senior Technology Advisor Says the White House is Quietly Pursuing an Aggressive AI Plan (technologyreview.com)

Speaking at a conference held at MIT, Donald Trump's chief technology advisor, Michael Kratsios, said this week that the U.S. government would release any data that might help fuel AI research in the United States, although he didn't specify immediately what kind of data would be released or who would be eligible to receive the information. From a report: Kratsios, who is deputy assistant to the president and deputy US chief technology officer, said the government is looking for ways to open up federal data to AI researchers. "Anything that we can do to unlock government data, we're committed to," Kratsios told MIT Technology Review. "We'd love to hear from any academic that has any insights." Data has been a key factor behind recent advances in artificial intelligence. For example, better voice recognition and image processing have been contingent on the availability of huge quantities of training data. The government has access to large amounts of data, and it's possible that it could be used to train innovative algorithms to do new things. "Anything we can do to figure that out, we will work very hard on," Kratsios added.

The Trump administration has faced criticism for a more laissez-faire approach to artificial intelligence than many other countries have taken. Kratsios argued that the White House is quietly pushing an aggressive policy, pointing to examples of research projects that have received federal funding. When asked about the president's interest in artificial intelligence, Kratsios said, "The White House has prioritized AI, and he obviously runs the White House."

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The new AI Code Name is....

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump Headroom

Quetly?

[houghi]

Quetly persuing it?
To me that reads as if POTUS is either not aware or they try to do it behinds his back. Otherwise he would be yellling how great the AI would be. It will be a great AI, it will be the best AI. You'll see!

Re:Quetly?

[jellomizer]

It was probably one of those things, when discussed, his eyes glazed over and started tweeting on his phone. That is Nerd stuff that doesn't matter to Trump.

I have dealt with Bosses much like Trump. Just as long as the topic isn't on his Priority Wish List or the Hate List, just as long as you made some partial argument for it, you are good to go.

AI Research will not make Trump look great, nor will it make him look worse. If it is a success he can then call it a great success, if it fails, he will just be like it was a little side project.

Guys like Trump are easily manipulable, avoid the trigger areas, and work on their ego, and you are the shining star, and you get to do whatever you want.

The only intelligence

[Kernel Kurtz]

this White House is likely to see would be artificial. They are certainly lacking in the real kind.

nuh way

[cascadingstylesheet]

Unless Trump is personally checking code into the repos, that means he's an imbecile!!

Taxpayer money

[110010001000]

In other words, the tech industry has convinced us to giving them even more taxpayer money based on false promises of "AI".

Re:The President has prioritized AI

[DickBreath]

AI will bring the speed and power of computers to screwing up policy decisions.

And by AI, I mean Artificial Insanity.

Artificial intelligence?

[Locke2005]

No match for the president's natural stupidity!