Michael Kratsios

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

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America 4

The postwar settlement for American science is obsolete: the federal share of R&D has inverted, with private money and philanthropy now funding about 70% of it.
Quantum information science is the technology Washington will care enormously about within five years and does not give enough airtime today.

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government 4

There is no place where a technologist can work on bigger problems than the US government — not even the biggest technology companies deal with problems of that scale.
The postwar settlement for American science is obsolete: the federal share of R&D has inverted, with private money and philanthropy now funding about 70% of it.

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AI and science 2

AI will transform how scientific discovery is done, and within two or three years a working scientist's job will already look dramatically different.
Autonomous cloud labs that run the whole loop — hypothesis, experiment, result, next hypothesis — without human intervention are within reach.

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startups 2

Washington cannot make good technology policy in a vacuum: without startups and industry saying what they believe, the decisions come out worse.
AI regulation only avoids handing incumbents a moat if it is one national framework that is equally clear and easy for companies of every size.

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