America's AI Action Plan | David Wood

The President wants American AI supremacy, big tech is onboard, and the DOE is selecting data-center locations. Are we moving too fast? Dr. David Wood discusses “America’s AI Action Plan”.

On July 23, the White House released “America’s AI Action Plan” along with three Executive Orders addressing AI development, federal procurement, and infrastructure. The President said, "My administration will use every tool at our disposal to ensure the United States can build and maintain the largest and most powerful AI infrastructure on the planet."

The 25-page AI Action Plan focuses on bolstering American AI dominance through deregulation, ideologically neutral AI systems, infrastructure investment, and international competition. This will fast-track Federal permitting, streamline reviews, and expedite construction of AI infrastructure projects.

White House AI & crypto Czar David Sacks spoke on CNBC and mentioned Huawei's development of an AI "Cloud Matrix", and Nvidia's decision to start selling chips to China, and stated that "unless America competes we're effectively subsidizing China's efforts by giving them market share, revenue for R&D, and creating a developer ecosystem for them." In other words, he's saying AI is a race that can be lost.

Is the administration launching a global AI race, similar to US/USSR nuclear arms race in the cold war - or is this merely an acknowlegement of existing trends? Trump himself said progress is going to go so fast, that "you're going to say wait a minute, this is too fast". He's also said, "as with any such breakthrough, this technology brings with it the potential for bad as well as for good, for peril as well as for progress".

Our discussion includes not only the Action Plan and Executive Orders, but also explores on AI safety, The Singularity, economic impacts, and US competition with China.

Dr. David Wood is a well-known futurist, author, singularitarian, and chair of the London Futurists.

Dr. Wood has an MA in Mathematics, graduate studies in the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, an honorary doctorate in science from the University of Westminster, and over 30 years of experience in the technology industry.

As a futurist, Dr. Wood has served as the Co-Founder of Transhumanist UK, Executive Director of Transpolitica, Node Co-Chair of The Millennium Project, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and his current role as Principal at Delta Wisdom. He also holds board positions at SingularityNet, Sustensis, the LEV Foundation, and is a former board member of Humanity Plus.

David is the author of 13 books, and is one of the T3's "100 most influential people in technology". His focus is on radical transformation in society and humanity enabled by technological disruption.


LINKS & RESOURCES:

Future Visions: How to Survive and Thrive in the Upcoming Economic Singularity: A Variety of Perspectives
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTGHJCT4

The Singularity Principles: Anticipating and managing cataclysmically disruptive technologies
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Singularity-Principles-Anticipating-cataclysmically-technologies-ebook/dp/B0B5RWWH47

Post-Scarcity Economy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity
Delta Wisdom: https://deltawisdom.com/
David's Blog: https://dw2blog.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dw2cco/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dw2
London Futurists: https://londonfuturists.com/


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