K Artificial Intelligence (AI) now appears to have been identified as a key technology issue in the White House. After the government and especially President Donald Trump So far, at least publicly, little has been announced, is now a big meeting announced for this Thursday: The administration has invited business representatives to Washington.
Employees of Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Oracle, Intel , Ford, Boeing, Mastercard, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Pfizer and Walmart. For the government, representatives of the Pentagon and the Minister of Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, Health and Transport take.
During the one-day meeting, we will talk about research and development of AI and what obstacles to its widespread application could be and could potentially be removed. “As the world leader in the development of artificial intelligence, the United States plays a unique role in promoting the adoption of AI in industry and the general public,” Bloomberg quotes from a White House paper on the event. Participants would discuss policy measures to “fully realize the promise of artificial intelligence for the American people.”
Currently, countries around the globe are pushing their efforts in the field of artificial intelligence. Above all, China stands out; The leadership in Beijing launched a national AI plan last summer with the goal of making the People’s Republic a dominant nation in this technology by 2030. French President Emmanuel Macron recently unveiled a French initiative. Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek (CDU) also just announced that Germany would do much more in this area.