Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will keynote an AI summit on Oct. 21 hosted by the newly formed Prometheus Initiative, according to an invitation shared with Axios.
Why it matters: Government officials and industry players are eager to tout the societal benefits they're expecting from AI and quell concerns around job displacement, disinformation and more.
Karen Dahut, the chief executive at Google Public Sector, would like to see the defense world more quickly adopt emerging technologies.
"I think that is a mindset challenge. I think it's a cultural challenge. I think it's a process challenge, and I think it's an acquisition challenge," she told Axios in an interview.
"Legacy providers are motivated to maintain the status quo," she said. "That's a challenge for the Department of Defense."
Why she matters: Dahut has decades of experience in the tech space. She's a former U.S. Navy officer and spent time with Booz Allen Hamilton's global defense business.
