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OSTP director Michael Kratsios spoke at CISIS on Wednesday on the recently released AI action plan and laid out four specific areas where the Trump administration is looking to Congress for help on its tech agenda.
Here's Kratsios' breakdown of the categories that the White House believes the Hill needs to be involved in:
1. Preemption: "Anything related to preemption is something that's going to be mostly in their court instead of ours, and we look forward to working with them to kind of think through some of those preemption issues."
2. Copyright: "Obviously the fair use issue of copyrighted materials and the training of large language models was something the president brought up in the speech. There's not a lot the executive branch can do on that."
- "Understanding and interpreting what fair use is is now sitting in the courts, but that's obviously something that if the Hill wants to think about, that's an area that they, although quite controversial ... could potentially try to tackle."
3. AI standards: "With the reforms we've made to [the Center for AI Standards and Innovation], there is obviously an opportunity for the Hill to think about how to legislate on the standards institute and give it sort of statutory cover for some of the actions that we want to be doing long term."
4. Appropriations: "I continue to always think about R&D funding and the way that we can prioritize AI-related funding across NSF and a bunch of other agencies."
