The White House promises to release government data to fuel the AI boom

Donald Trump's chief technology advisor, Michael Kratsios, said that the US 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, nor who would be eligible to receive the information. Speaking at EmTech Next, a conference held at MIT this week, Kratsios, deputy assistant to the President and deputy US chief technology officer, said that 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.