The a watch Katie Mcfarland with her book revolution trump, washington, and we the people stop sunday night 9 00 p. M. Eastern on after words on booktv. The u. S. Chief Technology Officer talked about Artificial Intelligence and competition from china, hosted by the Hudson Institute this is about 50 minutes. [inaudible background conversations] [inaudible background conversations] welcome everyone to our meeting on ai and advanced Quantum Information Sciences, quantum computing etc. Im pleased to have an opportunity to welcome michael kratsios, who has a thoroughly intimidating title of chief Technology Officer of the United States. I think weve come to the right place to engage this important subject. The administration has ttaken a very energetic position in trying to advance the stateoftheart and above the applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Quantum Information Sciences to our nondefense applications, there is a parallel effort of substantial scale in the department of defense who the defense advanced search for projects agency and other defenses entities because these technologies are indeed of universal applications. I like to take an opportunity to begin the discussion with michael to perhaps start with a bit of current news where europe has European Union had in particular has tabled some of their ideas about how to manage some of the particularly the ethical issues relating to the use of artificial ointelligence. Weve had of course quite a number of years of tension on a transatlantic basis about the application of advanced technologies to commercial as well as governmental applications. Id be interested in getting your take on this michael. Thank you so much as you probably know the United States is kind of first out of the gate in january where we proposed the ai regulatory principles and those are out for comment. Since then the eu yesterday has released their attempt to do what we did in january with providing some sort of structure around the way they think about regulations of add Power Technologies and the European Union. Our take is twofold, i think one we are very encouraged to see a lot of focus in their document on the importance of fostering an Innovation Ecosystem thats friendly to cu artificial technology. In helping drive startups and small startups of Smaller Companies to work in the space. They also talk very much about valuesbased approach, one that the United States expressed when we put out our principles in january. The one thing i do think is important to flag and one thing where i think there could be room for improvement is their next step from taking this approach and actually implementing it. We found what they actually put out yesterday really i think it does in some ways clumsily attempt to bucket ai Power Technologies as either high risk or not high risk. The way they are proposed regulatory scheme and structure there will be some sort of group of some kind in europe that will make some sort of decision on whether or not a technology is highrisk or not and if you are high risk coming have to go through a pretty extensive regulatory approach. If you are not highrisk you dont have to do anything. We believe this all or nothing approach is not necessarily the best way to approach regulating Ai Technologies we think ai regulation is best when it serves on a spectrum of sorts. There are certain types of technologies that ai Power Technologies that will require heavy regulatory scrutiny and we in the United States are prepared to do that. There are quite a few that need just a little or not at all and i think creating the spectrum is important. I think thats kind of where our biggest concern is and ill be traveling to brussels next month and speaking to folks over there and sharing some of these concerns. I think theres a lot we have in common but i think this approach of very bluntly bifurcating the entire r d through the entire ai tech ecosystem into two buckets a little harsh for. I think its a very good point and use it as you may know, i also serve on the dod defense vScience Board and we done studies on the application of modern technology to the development of both ai and quantum and one of the opportunities that may evolve as Technology Improves to facilitate the better alignment with our allies in europe is an effort thats underway in darfur to develop explainable ai so that the user of the output of an ai based bit of analysis is able to understand the coupling between the outcome and the data that produce the outcome. We are of course not there yet but there may be some opportunities for Research Collaboration between between the u. S. And the eu to perhaps better solve this problem of explainable. Its a good segue into how the u. S. Approach in some ways differs a little bit to the european. When we put out our r principle last january they focused on three main themes and one hits directly on this explained ability. The most important thing in the u. S. Model is public engagement. Whenever we attempt to pursue regulatory action of any kind toward a private Sector Company of implementing add Power Technology we as the federal government have some experts but the community of people know this best. They have the scientists and technology and the experts to help us do that. We believe we need to as riskbased and sectorbased and specific. The types of its different for the type of regulation you have for add Power Medical diagnostic. Rather than pocketing the technology those are all high risk you have to ,be 12 things are these are not highrisk you dont have to do anything there has to be a bit of a spectrum and flexibility in the model so youre able to actually regulate appropriately for the risk of each of these technologies provide. The third, which i think you bring up very astutely is this idea of emoting trustworthy ai. Something we deeply care about and read to engender trust of the American People and the technology they are using. We need to create a regulatory model that allows the trust to be built and having better already abone of the issues thats related to this thats coming fast upon us is the interaction between ai and the internet of things. Isthe Science Board has been doing some work on the technologies of economy and counter autonomy and Ai Technology is one of the things that can make iot work for the whole society. May also be some opportunities for collaboration with our eu colleagues on trying to understand how we will manage the introduction of iot because like other applications where ai is involved the range of applications is extraordinarily diverse. I couldnt agree more and i think where we have manifested that type of thinking in our approach is actually through the first large white house summit we held on Artificial Intelligence was very intentionally titled ai for american industry. We were trying to express when we were hosting the event is Artificial Intelligence is going to touch every industry in the United States whether you are doing Oil Extraction in texas, whether you are doing farming in iowa whether biotech in boston you will be using this technology to drive your business. Uif the u. S. Wants to lead the world and win Artificial Intelligence we need to make sure all the industries are able to capture the benefits that that Artificial Intelligence can provide. Being able to have that very important dialogue with allies around the world on how to move these forward is absolutely critical. One of the news items that has been a pretty constant drumbeat for the past halfdozen years or so has been chinas alignment of its perception of its national and security interest with investments in advanced technology. They announced they are made in China China Initiative five years or so ago which identified about 10 areas of technology that would be getting particularly investment from china and often described in terms of billions of dollars. Id be interested in your observations about how chinas efforts have been coupled with the Administration Initiative and your perception of the chinese effort. Sort of two threads to pull on it i think the first needs to be said and i think timmy should be apparent and probably communicated more often generally is that the transcommunist party is using Artificial Intelligence to push forward a complete osurveillanc to maintain a great chinese firewall and restrict content that Chinese People have access to. Ctthese are the youth cases of Artificial Intelligence that are deeply in conflict with western values. This is something we have tried to communicate and continue to communicate with our friends and allies in europe and theres never been more imperative than now to ensure that the u. S. And allies lead the world in Artificial Intelligence. We need to ensure the next great Technological Breakthroughs are made here in the west are underpinned by western values and i think we dont lead we run the risk of these values that are diametrically opposed to everything we believe in slowly permeating these new technologies and being exported abroad. Thats why the imperative is so great thats why the president e signed into executive order launching the air american and i initiative will pursue the whole government approach over the last three years to ensure American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence thats why we made the big announcement last monday the minute you saw were committed to doubling nondefense ai spent in by the federal government in the next two years. Its moving from about billion dollars to 2 billion a federally funded our indiana night and in the course of only two years. This is a massive and incredible step forward in our commitment to American Leadership in this particular domain. I think its very important to remember is that one, i think point to what you m brought up as these commitments that have been sort of publicly asserted by the chinese government. We believe that there is a lot we have a lot of skepticism in the validity of those particular statistics. I challenge all of you to spend hmore time thinking about if youre attempting to report on are they actually spending billions of dollars . Is that really a true statement . Can you compare that number to the number that Congress Appropriates and is actually spent and put out the door by our agencies . I think the short answer is no. There needs to be a more stronger better and bigger conversation around the validity of these numbers. Pointing to two studies that came out. He put on a study last december that cast down a lot of these numbers that in reality there is definitely not spending tens of billions into spending a lot less than that. Thats the type of narrative we need to make clear because when we are trying to make comparisons about what the west is spending and how we are approaching our own ecosystem we need to be comparing apples to apples. Is a good point and one of the things i think ironically is going to render chinas investment less successful is that in parallel with their made in china 2025 initiative they also have emphasized what they call Civil Military fusion which is an effort to extract the military applications of these advanced technologies. Both Quantum Sciences and ai are technologies that will have universal applicability in trying to forcefeed the scientific effort into producing military advantage will have the more likely outcome that will produce near neither military advantage or advance the underlying science. It is something of limitation so i think we are likely to be more successful with this approach. I was very reassured by your observations about the scale of the increase and having previously served in the office of management and budget as an official number of years ago. One of the questions i always ask about Public Sector investment, which is easy to measure is what are your expectations for the outcomes of this investment . Are there pertinent metrics . Are onthere formed expectations that might help shape public expectations about the scale of the investment . Absolutely. I think the best way to answer that is to give a little bit of a description about the type of Innovation Ecosystems we have here in the United States and the roles the federal federal Government Agency plays in driving innovation in the United States. With very different than almost any other country in the world and particularly in china is the way that the federal government spends research and development dollars. We dont have a ministry of science thats sold out x number of dollars and a decision on how to spend it via research and development happening across all our federal agencies. Darfur is doing incredible work more on the late stage applied side you have in abto invest in earlystage basic Research Done by a lot of our universities. Theres a department of energy, which has billions of dollars spent to their Incredible NationalStructure National institute for health which does a lot of our bio related bio Health Related research. We are very diverse set of places and each of them have their own aspirational goals. Vein some ways we are incentivizing and creating free market ideas around innovation. The part the federal government plays a larger spectrum is generally speaking the federal government is investing in earlystage precompetitive basic research and development. Its very different then what the private sector does and thats by design. The types of research the federal government generally approaches is the type of research the private sector is not incentivized to do on their own. Thats a gap which i feel. We do it in a way where these ideas can come to life and then they are taken up and absorbed by the private sector brought to fruition and completion ultimately to commercialization. A great example to show how our system is unique is this breakthrough that happened last year on quantum supremacy. There is no doubt in my mind someone in beijing had sort of called upon someone else in china to achieve quantum supremacy before United States did. We didnt make that call here in washington to our community yet the United States made the breakthrough first. The question is why or how. I think the story is pretty interesting. The federal government invests in this earlystage basic research we made a commitment years ago to investing into a quantum lab at uc santa barbara. Its doing incredible work and we continue to fund the early basic Stage Research that didnt have commercial obligations. This was some breakthroughs were made, google sought said this is a great team we could bring them on board and put them with more resources that we have more computer time. We have acquired the Group Brought them inhouse and that group was able to achieve what they believed was quantum supremacy. Now they have to prove their divides actually be faster than traditional computer. It has the Fastest Computers in the world the federal government does our National Labs. They took their breakthrough and they went to the arun by the doe and ran the test to prove theyve done it. You can see this incredible Virtuous Cycle all pieces of the ecosystem working together lefrom work funding academic academic institution. Moving to the private sector and having to go back to the federal government ultimately for the final check. This is the type of freemarkete approach and innovation which has led to a breakthrough which is really well changing. Its a very good observation. Having done some work with the National Labs one of the things they been able to do successfully i think interacts in a particularly constructive way with this initiative which is basically in the foundational science of Artificial Intelligence. In Quantum Sciences. They have extraordinary modeling and simulation capabilities. The application of Artificial Intelligence or say quantum sensing for example can be put through a synergistic suite of modeling and simulation that contributes to the advance of the foundational science and is the foundational science of course creates the technology and on that particular point at be interested in any of your observations about how us ai and Quantum SciencesTechnology Stacks up internationally. We continue in the world in both domains. Theres a whole number of metrics, quite a number of metrics you can use to come to this analysis but generally speaking, we have the best institutions in the world. We have the most highly cited papers in the world we have the most vibrant venture ecosystem in the world. We have the most private sector dollars invested in the demand. The list goes on and on. In all the metrics we continue to lead the world. The question is, less about where we stack up today but how we maintain the leadership. If you look at the present very intentionally, title his executive order on Artificial Intelligence maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence and this is what we are doing g to our national strategies. Generally speaking whether its in Information Science or ai we generally follow sort of a strategic approach as for primary lines of effort. The first line of effort is all around research and development leadership. So back to the question of the federal government spends in the neighborhood of 150 billion a year on research and development. Had recorded the efforts in a way to allow the maximize output of those dollars. We do that through coordinating mechanisms, a lot of it on increasing r d spending at the federal level tivoli historic levels with the 2 billion announcement last week. And the list goes on. Table 2 was around the regulatory approach. We want to remove barriers to Ai Innovation and innovation broadly in these domains and create a Regulatory Environment which fosters and actually drives further and more innovation in these domains and otherwise possible. We believe that our product to allow that to happen was our regulatory principles that came out last january. Thats able to balance the court important values of the United States with the necessity to for some oversight of these technologies. The third line of effort is always around workforce. We deeply believe in the power of the American People to help sustain and drive these technologies. We can have the greatest quantum scientists and Artificial Intelligence experts here in the United States. Weve done that and a great example of that is in our ai eo the president directed our agencies to prioritize Artificial Intelligence in their grants and fellowships. Whether youre at the department of energy giving out grants to grassroots whether National Science foundation you will be prioritizing ai in a way you work before President Trump took the action. The second piece is around workforce around preparing American Workers for the 21st century economy, how do we rescale and retrain americans to be prepared to take nm advantage of these technologies in the workplace especially environment where there will be some displacement as technologies take hold. In pillar number four which i think goes back to the very early part of our conversation is around international engagement. We deeply believe there must be strong ties between the u. S. And its allies on driving leadership in these particular technologies. If the west does not believe we are essentially seeing this domain to other countries which have a set of values which are in direct conflict with ours. Weve done so with places like the oecd. An administration that generally is very thoughtful around approaching multilateral agreements. Were able to get to the point where the u. S. Signed on to th oecd ai principles. Something we signed in may of last year that shows that we as western democracies can come together and say, these are the type of principles we need to underpin the way the ai is developed. From these principles you can see visual countries manifesting those into regulations. Thats very relevant and ties to a question that often comes up with new technologies where the government is a major player in the investment and the foundational science. You see the ability of the government to enable a transfer of this technology to the civil sector users that would be able to evolve from the foundational science of the Technology Applications . Absolutely. This is something that the federal government has in some ways struggled with for decades. This idea of technology transfer. If a Great Innovation is made in our labs how do entrepreneurial science and businessmen in the private sector know that this exists and is able to identify the breakthrough to get into their own domain, find private capital and build the company and spirit into something bigger. Thats an effort we worked on in this Administration Every strong effort and continue to prioritize that. I think the key is for us to be provide better and more clarity to the private sector on inventory of the types of work we are doing. I think thats been a big effort, especially department of energy making labs more open and more open to the community to share incredible work being done. We continue to say its a priority and we are ready and willing to work with all private sector folks to get to that point. Its a very useful development because the government laboratories tend to lack a lot of the channels for propagating the technology into the civil sector and now with your work and the implementation of the quantum legislation, id be interested to see how you are getting on with it. As many of you know the president signed the National QuantumInitiative Act in december of 2018 and that actually created the National Quantum initiative here in the United States i think we are extraordinarily proud of that the whole government effort to n achieve the abi think we are very excited about the funding levels of being able to achieve there. Congress appropriated, authorized 1. 2 billion over five years in ialegislation the president and his budget last week proposed 500 million alone in the year 2021. N we are spending or e years toing about that out. Thats great, because the ability of the technology to be transferred really depends on a mechanism like that, and one of the interesting things that i noticed in the fact sheet on the initiative was youve also proposed investing 25 million in the quantum internet, and be keen to see what your expectations are, given that the internet as we know it with binary bits is was a product of innovation in arpa, the predecessor of darpa, almost 50 years ago. Absolutely. Ya o yeah. The first funding was to create arpa net, funded, this was a really big deal for the country. It showed how the creating a network that sort of connected Government Entities together could actually be something that was built into something bigger. And thats something that the department of energy is exploring now, this idea of being able to create a backbone for the future quantum internet that begins with connecting a lot of our core National Labs as the department of energy and use that as a backbone. And private Sector Companies can plug in, build and testing were excited to start doing the critical r d. There was a meeting in manhattan a few weeks ago where we brought together industry representatives, lab representatives, started talking about what it would look like. We put out our first thoughts on os ostp. Gov on what the future can hold. There you can see in an environment where we deeply believe in a private sector approach to innovation, we think theres an important and Critical Role that the federal government can play. Being able to build that initial backbone between labs is an Important Role we can step in. Thats good. And i think the idea of developing the backbone in the same way that when the arpa net first became visible, and it attracted users who were able to overlay their agencies or even Offices Mission on that infrastructure to facilitate its more rapid propagation, and it it sort of follows this general sort of theory of a case where the federal government should be focused on the types of activities which other parts of the innovation eco s the case where the federal government should be focused on the type of activities which parts of the ecosystem are not incentivized to do on their own whether building the initial backbone for quantum internet whether its building and sustaining and maintaining supercomputing enter structure. No company is going to create their own hpc infrastructure but its a Critical Role in the federal government can play to build the infrastructure allow users to pay for runtime and create a National Asset which is given to the Community One of the unintended perhaps most important consequence of that apart from its existence is creation of Human Capital to be able to develop and exploit the technology. It just occurred to me that im remiss in reminding you of the notice on the display that if you have questions you can get them at least at this stage the binary internet. Perhaps we can do better soon. There is one final letter question id be interested in what the reaction is to the administrations initiative in the Scientific Community id be interested to see what kind of response youre getting. A response has generally been in my opinion pretty positive. We went through a fairly extensive policy process to sort of shape and ultimately create and launch the american ai initiative. We deeply believe that whether you are in academia or the federal government all Important Roles to play. The challenge that was heavily identified in pieces or roles each what roles each of the pieces click willing those into the initiative. For us we are very focused on what assets of the federal government have to help turbocharge the other pieces of the ecosystem. For example, how do we make more of our hpc infrastructure available generally the response has been positive. We continue to look for more commitments for part of the ecosystem similar to us we have shown we are willing to make the leap in an environment we want able to find a way to prioritize these areas up as we. Both the Quantum Sciences and one of the questions we received from particularly energetic member of the panel the audience who didnt need instruction from the chair submitted a very interesting mention of this which is your take on the statement from the eu yesterday about aspiring to localize the holding of data from that comes from the data activity of say nonresident firms. The general position of the United States government has been pushing back on efforts by Foreign Countries to pursue data localization. Its something we believe is actually a way that you can hinder innovation and not something thats actually able to help innovation. Having the free flow of data is absolutely critical. For regimes that want to repress their people and use data localization rules as excuses for pursuing those types of policies. We dont need to give them an excuse to do so by doing it ourselves. The question that came in is more of projection New York Times in particular has been running a series reporting on how the chinese have applied their surveillance technologies which use ai in particular to improve the accuracy of facial recognition and so forth. They are using their involvement in the Communications Telecommunication systems also to have this as a malevolent app thats attended to their involvement in the Communication System in a way that is enabling them to wpropagate their Surveillance System to elsewhere, not just china. But in africa and other parts of the world. I think weve got a pretty compelling warning that the technology is emoving rapidly and it seems its most malevolent applications the ones that are selected first i think at this stage i would like to see if theres questions for the floor that didnt make it into the electronic form. Do we have a microphone . Thank you for your great work michael. We are really good at cutting edge research. What role does it play to lift instandards of basic education the nation in your work . It could not be more de critical. Creating a pipeline of american talent in these domains is absolutely imperative. One of the first actions that President Trump took in 2017 rwas a president ial memorandum that prioritized education at the department of education committing over 2 million towards at least 2 million toward improved stem ad programs. We continue to look for edheway create an environment where the next great ai researchers and quantum scientists are american and in the United States. We think it is something that we can continue to move the ball forward on and weve seen also a lot of interest from private sector joining the effort. A lot of it we try to do is take efforts in the initiative we are pushing forward and believe our National Priorities and have the partner or paired with commitments from other parts of Innovation Ecosystem. Whats exciting about that 200 million announcement in 2017 as it was paired the next day with a 300 million commitment from some of the Largest Technology companies in the u. S. To support Stem Education in a way they can do their own types of programming and thats the kind of energy we want to see and will want to continue to build that. One thing that our offices are responsible for statutorily is the drafting of a fiveyear strategic plan. We are in wthe Implementation Phase the Second Program since the second strategy since the law was passed. This looks at a whole government approach was very unique about our innovation ab r d structure and the federal government is that lots of agencies do it. Its pervasive around all of our abwhere the white house plays a role is bringing a lot c of those folks together and making sure the programs are working in alignment. Weve had a couple of additional questions that have been submitted in electronic form. The first one, expand on chinas use of ai to commit gross human rights abuses. What can the same too to hold accountable the same Companies Universities network alongside chinas companies to fuel the abuse. Thats really the point. The action taken by the Commerce Department and adding to the entity list the number of Chinese Companies which were complicit and enabling the suppression of abwas a huge step for the country and something we need to continue to point to and bring more attention to. There are a number of Technology Companies in china being utilized to pursue these human rights atrocities and need to be called out for what they are and added to entities list. The question of u. S. Engagement in some ways here i think is a little bit tricky and one that i care about deeply. I think theres an obligation among a lot of Technology Companies in the u. S. To be a lot more open eyed and less nacve and more cognizant of the types of activities happening they are engaging in china. This idea you talked about it a lot with the supplementary fusion that even if your conducting what you believe is sort of an Oculus Research is american and china that type of research is being used for all sorts of reasons and ways you often cant even imagine. For us as we constantly remind folks whether you are investors designed to invest in chinese startups whether American Companies trying to do business in china, very prominent American Companies selling medical devices used to do biometric analysis and used to tracking database of certain ethnic minorities. We should have american Companies Complicit in this type of behavior. The sense of problem is so pervasive i think we will probably need some more details federal attention to it. One of the issues that always comes up when the discussion of resources engaged in funding of ai Quantum Sciences the allocation of those resources result from a decrement of investment in some other part of science Scientific Research might be considered lower priority or whatever reason came out of second to ai and quantum. Generally speaking our budget Budget Proposal for 2021 was a six percent increase overall for research and development from the 2020 proposed budget. The pie increased and we spent a lot of that excess plus up in the areas the president s prioritized. We will take some more questions from the floor. The gent with the beard. I feel there is a fundamental a your name. abyour spectrum there are times in which things are due dual use you can use the exact same algorithm to detect heart arrhythmias as to detect flaws in screwed signatures of american submarines transiting cell china c. You need one spectrum in which its pretty much single use and you can measure the good evil potential of that single use and the other spectrum is this complex mix of good uses and bad uses and are you going to stop the percolation of the arrhythmia detector so that the chinese dont get their hands on the screwed signature flaw detector kit you establish two spectrum to better get a handle on this problem. I think its a very tricky issue i think in the world of ai and Face Recognition Software its very arduous and long process to get back to things like export controls on ai how to get your hands around the issues. It can continue to be tricky its not what we should think about but certainly is tricky. Taiwan is in the forefront in the penetration or abhow can the us cooperate with taiwan. [indiscernable] do not benefit the wrong use of those chips. Thank you for your question. 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