Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s chief science and tech adviser, highlights wins in AI for science while teasing exports of American AI.

Going into this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the White House’s top science and technology adviser, Michael Kratsios, signaled some chilly conversations with European leaders may lie ahead on the topic of artificial intelligence and the way it is regulated.

“I will continue to point out to my tech minister counterparts the ways they can create a regulatory environment to allow AI to thrive,” Kratsios told NBC News, “to make sure they’re not getting ahead of themselves with overburdening regulations, like the EU AI Act, which are an absolute disaster.” For Kratsios, the Trump administration’s light-touch approach to AI regulation is the winning formula.

"There’s been an A-B test for decades on how you lead in technology, and it’s very obvious what the recipe is,” said Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and one of the nation’s leading artificial intelligence advisers.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    52·
    23 hours ago

    Kratsios, 39, cut his teeth in the world of private industry, spending much of his early career at Thiel Capital, a venture capital firm founded by Silicon Valley stalwart Peter Thiel.

    jfc, not this vampire again.

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      20·
      23 hours ago

      He’s Trump’s official science advisor now, but Idk why people leave his very impressive stint as Trump’s default science advisor with no science experience off of his resume these days…

      Sign of the times I guess

      Trump’s de facto science adviser is 31 and has no science training

      More than a year into his presidency, Donald Trump still hasn’t appointed a top science adviser. So who, then, is the top-ranking science official in the White House?

      “The job falls to Michael Kratsios,” ClimateWire’s Scott Waldman writes. As the top-ranking official in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Kratsios is now the de facto top science adviser in the White House.

      Kratsios is a 31-year-old with a political science degree and a focus on Hellenic (a.k.a. Greek) studies from Princeton who cut his professional teeth in Silicon Valley, according to Waldman. These are not exactly the qualifications you’d want for the person the president is supposed to turn to for advice on dealing with a disease outbreak, or an environmental disaster (though Archimedes’ principle does come in handy in explaining sea level rise).

    • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      22 hours ago

      The vampire is Johnson, Thiel is the one that had his boyfriend pushes off a balcony.

      p.s hoping that Thiel spends a lot of time on balconies will get you banned from the r-site, becauase its more cucked than bubba-the-love-spong

      • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Thiel gets regular blood infusions from his son’s blood. That’s why people call him a vampire.

        • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          gets regular blood infusions from his son’s blood

          No that’s literally what Johnson does!

          Theil might but if he does it’s not public knowledge