AI Dominance Will Drive Trump Tech, Science Agenda, Nominee Says

Ensuring American technological dominance is crucial to national security as China threatens to surpass the US in artificial intelligence and other new technologies, President Donald Trump’s nominee for science and technology adviser told senators at his confirmation hearing.

“The shape of future global order will be defined by whomever leads across AI, quantum, nuclear, and other critical and emerging technologies,” Michael Kratsios, Trump’s pick to direct the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, testified Tuesday before the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. “Chinese progress in nuclear fusion, quantum technologies, and autonomous systems all press home the urgency of ...