Kratsios On AI: That Other Really Notable UN Speech (From The National Interest)

While President Donald Trump’s fiery speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 23 and the shenanigans surrounding a broken elevator and teleprompter have gotten a great deal of media attention, another highly consequential speech also deserves notice. 

On September 24, Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told the United Nations (UN) Security Council, in a respectful but firm tone, that there is no way the UN is going to dictate to the United States our policy on artificial intelligence (AI)—and that the United States will be the world’s AI leader in perpetuity. 

In brief but pointed remarks of less than five minutes, Kratsios called out the UN and reminded them who is driving the AI train globally.

Paul Steidler discusses this in an Op-Ed in The National Interest here.