White House asks Silicon Valley for AI solutions to coronavirus

White House officials called on the tech sector to help combat the coronavirus with AI in a meeting with Silicon Valley heavyweights on Wednesday. During the teleconference, US Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios previewed a new database of coronavirus-related literature that the government plans to release in the coming days, and challenged the tech community to use AI to find insights from the data. Cutting edge technology companies and major online platforms will play a critical role in this all-hands-on-deck effort. Today's meeting outlined an initial path forward and we intend to continue this important conversation. The roughly two-hour call was attended by government officials and tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Twitter, and Cisco.