Michael Kratsios
US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.
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There is no place where a technologist can work on bigger problems than the US government — not even the biggest technology companies deal with problems of that scale.
I think there is there is um no place where you can work on bigger problems than the US government. Even at the the biggest tech companies in the world, you're never going to be dealing with problems of this of this scale.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Whatever the industry, the thing standing between a technology and its market is usually a government rule, which makes policy the lever that unlocks technologies.
no matter what kind of industry you're looking at, there was this government angle where the government's policy actions could be ones that could actually unlock technologies.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Technology policy is not decided by one or two people in the White House: the decisions are extraordinarily federated across agencies.
these decisions are extraordinarily federated. There isn't just like one or two people in the White House who decide something.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
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The United States cannot lead in artificial intelligence with closed models alone: it needs a vibrant open-source ecosystem alongside them.
if the US wants to lead in artificial intelligence, we have to have a vibrant closed and open source ecosystem, and that's the only way they can all work together.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Washington cannot make good technology policy in a vacuum: without startups and industry saying what they believe, the decisions come out worse.
if if DC is in a vacuum isn't hearing anything from the startup ecosystem or even from big tech ecosystem or even from financial services or all these different industries, we can't make the best decisions.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Rules for a technology that reinvents itself every six months must not draw firm red lines, because firm lines ultimately do not work.
the answer to that really is you don't want to set very firm red lines in the sand because they ultimately don't work.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
The EU AI Act is the cautionary case for regulating early: Europe's language models must obey a rule that was finished before large language models existed.
have to abide by this rule that was written before LLMs were even a thing. And that shows how challenging sort of the the the situation is if you try to set the line too firm to begin with.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
The tradeoff in cyber-capable models cannot be designed away: the model that can do something nefarious is the same model that hardens the system against it.
the challenge with a lot of these cyber capable models is the same model that is able to sort of do something nefarious is the same model that can be very valuable in hardening an existing system.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
The biological risk from AI models has been overblown for years: people were shouting about it in 2021 and 2022 and it has not been an issue since.
I think people were sort of like shouting about the bio problem back in '21, '22. Hasn't been an issue for 3 years.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
A state-by-state patchwork of AI rules is something only the biggest technology companies can absorb.
if you create a or allow for the creation of a patchwork of regulations, meaning there's one set of regulations for AI in California, another one in Maryland, another one in Texas. You know, the big tech guys, they can deal with that.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Congress should pass a federal preemption law for AI so that fifty states cannot each write their own rules.
we would urge Congress to to be able to pass some sort of some sort of law around around preemption so we don't have this crazy patchwork of all these different states doing all these different things these things on AI.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
AI regulation only avoids handing incumbents a moat if it is one national framework that is equally clear and easy for companies of every size.
I think it's all about having regulatory clarity and ease for all sizes of of companies. Um and if we can work with Congress to do something like that, I think that would be that would be the biggest boon for for for startups.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Technologies are either born free or born in captivity, and the born-free ones — the internet when it started — have to be preserved from new regulation.
born free technologies are ones where there aren't regulations on the books. Things of like the internet when it just started. And those are the types of technologies you have to preserve.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Supersonic flight is the most obvious example of technological stagnation there is: we fly slower today than the Concorde did.
I think it's the most obvious sort of like in your face example of technological stagnation. We had the Concorde flying years ago. We're flying slower than we were back then today. Absolute tragedy.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
The postwar settlement for American science is obsolete: the federal share of R&D has inverted, with private money and philanthropy now funding about 70% of it.
Over time that has sort of inverted completely. The private sector plus philanthropy now do about 70% of R&D and the and the government only does about 30.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
AI will transform how scientific discovery is done, and within two or three years a working scientist's job will already look dramatically different.
If you are working on material science, if you are working on pharmaceuticals, if you are working on chemistry, you in 2 3 years or even today are doing your role as a scientist dramatically different because of artificial intelligence.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Autonomous cloud labs that run the whole loop — hypothesis, experiment, result, next hypothesis — without human intervention are within reach.
The idea that you can have autonomous cloud labs running experiments on a loop without human intervention, testing hypotheses, running the experiments, seeing the results, creating a new hypothesis, testing it and running it, and ultimately getting to a conclusion, that is in our sights.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Quantum information science is the technology Washington will care enormously about within five years and does not give enough airtime today.
Well, we discuss it a lot, but I don't think it gets as much airtime as it should, and and that would be that would be quantum information science technology or quantum computing.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Legislating AI is riskier than an executive order, because the next administration can revoke a bad executive order and nobody can revoke a bad law.
The thing about executive orders, which is a little secret, is when administration changes, you can just revoke the executive order and and start from scratch again. Um when something is a law, you you can't do that.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
Government work is a bureaucratic slog and is still the place where a technologist can have the biggest impact on the country.
I think it can be a slog, it can be bureaucratic, it can be painful, but when the when the outcome actually happens and you deliver the result, there is no place where you can have a bigger impact on on this country.
Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy Said 18 Aug 2026
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