President-elect Donald Trump might reportedly add a man-made intelligence czar to his new administration.
The particular person would assist oversee federal coverage and authorities use of AI, Axios reported Tuesday (Nov. 26), citing unnamed sources on the Trump transition workforce.
The position, which is probably going however not particular, per the report, won’t go to Elon Musk, though the billionaire and Trump supporter is anticipated to play a job in White House AI coverage.
Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who’re heading the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), which is Trump’s new outside-government group, can have enter into who will get the job, the report mentioned.
Rivals are involved that Musk will use his ties to the White House to favor his firms, which embody the AI agency xAI, based on the report. Musk has been concerned in public feuds with competing AI CEOs, akin to Sam Altman of OpenAI and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Trump can also be contemplating including a cryptocurrency czar to his administration, and it’s potential the position might be mixed with the AI job, creating an rising tech czar, the report mentioned.
Trump has mentioned he would overturn President Joe Biden’s complete AI executive order, signed in October 2023, claiming the rule hinders innovation.
Trump’s first time period as president noticed restricted concentrate on AI, though he issued the primary govt order coping with the know-how in 2019, requiring federal businesses to prioritize AI analysis and growth.
Among the many AI-related points a brand new administration would possibly want to handle is the necessity for infrastructure to help the know-how.
“Whereas overseas markets transfer rapidly to construct energy programs for next-generation computing services, American utilities’ prolonged deployment timelines for brand spanking new electrical capability might redirect billions in tech funding overseas and reshape the worldwide AI panorama,” PYMNTS wrote earlier this month.
Counting on conventional approaches to increasing its energy infrastructure will solely trigger the U.S. to fall behind, Allan Schurr, chief industrial officer at vitality transition firm Enchanted Rock, informed PYMNTS.
“Delays in including new transmission and era capability, which may vary from three to 10-plus years, will pressure firms to hunt out various areas to help AI infrastructure,” he mentioned.
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