Hello and welcome to Eye on AI…In this edition: my chat with AI leader Eric Xing…Trump’s AI export plan…drama at the International Math Olympiad…Stargate update…transparency in reasoning.
I was excited and curious to meet Eric Xing last week in Vancouver, where I was attending the International Conference on Machine Learning—one of the top AI research gatherings of the year. Why? Xing, a longtime Carnegie Mellon professor who moved to Abu Dhabi in 2020 to lead the public, state-funded Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), sits at the crossroads of nearly every big question in AI today: research, geopolitics, even philosophy.