Microsoft to Talk to Biden Team on Predicting Storms with AI (1)

The Biden administration will call on the tech industry on Thursday to design artificial intelligence models to improve public welfare in the coming decades, including by reducing car crashes and accelerating medical research.

Cabinet officials, led by White House science adviser Arati Prabhakar, will meet with leaders in Washington from companies such as Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.‘s Google, and General Electric Co. They’ll discuss working together to train AI models to forecast dangerous weather and manage demand for electricity, among other topics, Prabhakar said.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf, and budget director ...