The White House is constant to push ahead on a three-pillar technique announced in July to innovate, energy and export American-made AI merchandise.
Michael Kratsios, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, defined the administration’s objectives and progress in a Tuesday interview with Scripps News.
‘Like a sales mission:” White House continues its push to embed American AI worldwide
“For most countries around the world, the volumes of chips and the types of AI that we’ll be needing aren’t of real national security concern in the U.S. What we’re most concerned about is us not being there, and adversaries having their chips and their AI in those countries,” Kratsios mentioned. “So our biggest step right now is how do we get more people to use American AI?”
President Donald Trump has sought to increase U.S. chip manufacturing and enhance federal management of some operations. This month, he introduced the U.S. authorities would take a 10% stake in chipmaker Intel. Separately, the federal government cut a deal with chipmakers Nvida and AMD to loosen export restrictions of their merchandise to China for a 15% share of income.
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At the identical time the president has additionally deliberate a 100% tariff on laptop chip imports, a transfer that might elevate the costs Americans pay for computer systems, automobiles, home equipment and different electronics.
The U.S.-based Semiconductor Industry Association, a commerce group representing U.S. chip producers, estimates that U.S. manufacturing accounts for under 12% of laptop chips produced globally.
“We want to make sure that countries around the world are using our technology and not China’s or anyone else’s,” Kratsios mentioned. “We are Americans. We think we have the best technology. We want everyone to be using it. So for us, it’s almost like a sales mission. And I deeply believe we have the best technology and no matter what country we go to, I think we’ll always be winning out to just have the best stuff.”
Watch the total interview with Kratsios within the embedded video.