White House Transforms to Silicon Valley for a Day

Legislators met with dozens of techies and business leaders May 10 for the White House's Artificial Intelligence for American Industry summit. They're keeping the conversation around research and development and adoption of AI alive and well, as the U.S. strives to stay on top of global innovation. The Office of Science and Technology Policy and Michael Kratsios, the president's technical adviser, welcomed executives from more than 30 major tech companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google for the summit. It convened more than 100 senior government officials, technical experts from academia, heads of industrial research labs and business leaders, according to the White House's summary report. OSTP also announced a Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence under the National Science and Technology Council to advise the administration on interagency AI R&D priorities going forward.