The U.S. needs to “go big” on research and development in artificial intelligence and advanced technologies by overcoming budget caps and other spending concerns, according to the White House’s top science adviser.
Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said that given China’s technological rise and the potential of AI to be a disruptive force, increased R&D spending is necessary to keep America competitive.
“American R&D does not thrive unless we have the federal component to lay this foundation of basic research, to educate the students that are going to feed into all of these industries,” Prabhakar said at an American Enterprise Institute event on Oct. 8.
