The Trump Administration Plays Catch-Up on Artificial Intelligence

America is great at artificial intelligence--and it's going to get even greater. So the White House trumpeted Thursday, in the current administration's first substantial engagement with the technology widely predicted to upend every area of life and society. At a meeting that mingled industry, academia, and government, the Trump White House framed AI as a path to continued economic dominance over other nations. The exercise also seemed to expose an administration that lags other countries--and even its US predecessor--in developing its views and strategy on AI's implications and government's role in managing them. "America has been the global leader in AI, and the Trump administration will ensure our great nation remains the global leader in AI," the president's deputy assistant for technology policy, Michael Kratsios said at the meeting's opening.