Inside industry’s wishlist for a new national AI strategy

Private sector companies and industry advocated highlight U.S. dominance, export controls and federal adoption as their biggest wants in a new national AI policy.

The open comment period for entities to offer thoughts on the Trump administration’s forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Action Plan closed March 15, with many big names in AI submitting their perspectives on how the U.S. government should approach the emerging technology.  

There are variances in each company’s individual wish list for AI policy. Some of the prevalent themes across submissions, however, aligned themselves with the Trump administration’s optimistic, pro-industry stance on domestic AI policy.

“OpenAI agrees with the Trump Administration that AI creates prosperity and freedom worth fighting for — especially for younger generations whose future will be shaped by how this Administration approaches AI,” OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Christopher Lehane wrote in the company’s comments to the White House ...