CHINA/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House officials promised to keep the U.S. in the lead on emerging artificial-intelligence technologies, despite growing competition from China and worries about potential impacts on American workers. At a White House conference on artificial intelligence, Trump technology adviser Michael Kratsios pledged that the administration would make a priority of advancing artificial-intelligence research, through greater research funding and other steps…In addition to increased federal funding, Mr. Kratsios raised the possibility that AI researchers might eventually gain expanded access to the government’s network of national labs, and also the government’s ‘vast troves of taxpayer-funded data, in ways that don’t compromise privacy or security.’ Artificial intelligence is software that enables computers to emulate human intelligence, handling tasks such as recognizing and processing images or language in applications including autonomous driving.”
–John D. McKinnon, “Trump Administration Vows to Maintain U.S. Edge in AI Technology,” The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2018 1:28 pm