The technology sector’s rise in relevance, utility, and power in our lives and the international landscape has been increasingly self-evident over the 21st century. The past decade saw once-charming upstarts become behemoths who drew scrutiny from a wide range of critics. And the COVID-19 pandemic has only grown the sector’s salience and our dependence on their products, heightening the contradictory position. As we emerge from that pandemic with the rising awareness of this dependence, there are tons of questions about what happens next, which the Big Tech Ticket will address. James Rogers, a journalist with more than two decades covering the tech industry, will be the host of the Big Tech Ticket. The show will feature interviews with experts, decision makers, academics, and executives in the field, and will appear on Wednesdays.
Episodes
Wednesday May 12, 2021
Wednesday May 12, 2021
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/
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