The Need For A National Strategy For AI, With Gilman Louie

Artificial intelligence (AI) already plays a significant role in citizens' lives, and the United States has a clear leadership role in developing the capabilities and applications for AI. As the software gets more salient and visible, the question is whether the U.S. can maintain that leadership.

Gilman Louie, co-founder and partner of VC firm Alsop Louie and commissioner on the National Security Commission On Artifical Intelligence, joins The Big Tech Ticket to discuss the commission's recent report on the need for a national strategy in the US, and what that would entail.

The discussion touches on how AI is more than a software issue, how big the stakes are for leadership over AI usage, what history can tell us about ways to collaborate with global rivals, and how video games can help individuals close the knowledge gap around AI.

Topics Covered

• :30 minute mark - Direction of AI competition between US and China
• 4:00 – What steps should the US take
• 5:45 – Will everybody be onboard to develop a strategy?
• 8:30 – Reconsidering supply chains with respect to AI
• 10:00 – How can the government help business play a role in this strategy
• 11:30 – The stakes around AI development
• 15:30 – Nuclear détente and its example for setting AI standards
• 17:00 – Distinguishing between the U.S. system and authoritarian ones
• 20:30 – Value of AI – discovery functions
• 22:45 – The AI knowledge gap and getting “AI ready”
• 25:00 – Video games as a way to close the knowledge gap
• 29:00 - The Tetris Story

Read the NSCAI report here: https://www.nscai.gov/2021-final-report/