WEBVTT - White House Senior Policy Advisor for AI Sriram Krishnan Talks AI Policy

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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<v Speaker 2>The third pillar around making sure that we are expediting

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<v Speaker 2>the export of our American AI stack. That is really

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<v Speaker 2>core to our mission at Armada.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, what I really like about the AI Action Plan

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<v Speaker 3>is I actually believe it's quite actionable.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just what a few of the AI leaders had

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<v Speaker 2>to say yesterday in Washington about President Trump's AI Action

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<v Speaker 2>Plan here with more in the administration's AI rollout is

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<v Speaker 2>one of the people that helped formulate write that policy

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<v Speaker 2>in that document, Shariram Krishnan, Whitehouse Senior Policy Advisor for AI,

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<v Speaker 2>to get here in person in Washington, d C. There

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<v Speaker 2>was a point towards the end of that that sequence

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<v Speaker 2>of comments about exporting the American technology stack, exporting chips

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<v Speaker 2>in particular. Your colleagues in the cabinet, mister Lutnick, for example,

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<v Speaker 2>talked about this at length on stage. Are we going

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<v Speaker 2>to get a sets of rules and how will we

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<v Speaker 2>decide the volume and specificity of the types of chips

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<v Speaker 2>that we can sell, particularly into China?

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you Ed for having me here. I think we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to work on that. I think if you look

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<v Speaker 1>at the executive order that President Trump signed, which is

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<v Speaker 1>about America setting the standard. What you're going to see

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<v Speaker 1>is we're going to work closely with our friends in commerce,

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<v Speaker 1>especially in BIS, and what we're going to figure out

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<v Speaker 1>is what those police are going to be. But the

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<v Speaker 1>metapoint here is President Trump said was very clear, we

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<v Speaker 1>need America to set the standard for how AI is

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<v Speaker 1>being used globally, from chips to models, to every part

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<v Speaker 1>of the stack. And what we've seen over the last

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<v Speaker 1>six months, be it with Huawei on the chip side,

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<v Speaker 1>or be it with models like deep Seak, we have competition,

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<v Speaker 1>and yesterday's plan sets a very clear note that we

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<v Speaker 1>need to be making sure that our standards exist worldwide.

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<v Speaker 2>I read all twenty three pages as many times as

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<v Speaker 2>I could think twenty three on the version I have,

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<v Speaker 2>but we can agree to disagree. There's a heavy emphasis

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<v Speaker 2>on deregulation and permitting that we get for the onshoring

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<v Speaker 2>component for exporting American AI. What is it tangibly What

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<v Speaker 2>action will be taken to open that up, be it

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<v Speaker 2>on the software end or the hardware end of the stack.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, So if you prison. Trump signed three executive orders yesterday,

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<v Speaker 1>and one of them deals exactly with this and what

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to do is we're going to work with

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<v Speaker 1>industry to come up with a gold standard for what

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<v Speaker 1>the American stack should be. And there's going to be

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<v Speaker 1>a process and how we figured this out, and then

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<v Speaker 1>we're going to try and make sure that when we

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<v Speaker 1>work with our partners and our allied countries that they

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<v Speaker 1>are using our stack instead of the competitions.

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<v Speaker 3>For many would look at the four point two trillion

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<v Speaker 3>dollar market capitalization of Nvidia and wonder doesn't need any

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<v Speaker 3>more help in exporting its tech stack right now. How

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<v Speaker 3>much more support does an AMD or an Nvidia need.

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<v Speaker 1>You think, Well, the way we look at it is

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<v Speaker 1>we want America to win. We want American GPUs and

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<v Speaker 1>American models to be used. And Nvidia and AMD happened

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<v Speaker 1>to be great American companies along with many many others,

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<v Speaker 1>and so our job is to create the playing field

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<v Speaker 1>where company where Jensen or I saw doctor Lisa Sue

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<v Speaker 1>earlier can go sell their products worldwide.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's talk about that team, because there were some absences.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's say it we would think that Intel would be

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<v Speaker 3>a company about some report on its earnings that would

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<v Speaker 3>be integral to manufacturing here in the US. GSMC from

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<v Speaker 3>abroad coming in and putting money to work here in

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<v Speaker 3>the United States as well. What do we interpret by

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<v Speaker 3>those who weren't in the room.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure I would read too much into that.

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<v Speaker 1>I think if you look at yesterday's event, it was

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<v Speaker 1>amazingly well attended. We had industry leaders from across the stack,

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<v Speaker 1>from the semi conductor space to energy, to AI models

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<v Speaker 1>to AI applications, and as you said, like you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we really want American some my conductor industry to win,

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<v Speaker 1>and you saw today's event being extremely well represented.

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<v Speaker 2>When it came to that, you have advised the president

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<v Speaker 2>and collectively as a group, looked at policy. But there

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<v Speaker 2>was a moment that we have to address yesterday where

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<v Speaker 2>the President, after making various people stand up, said that

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<v Speaker 2>he had looked at breaking up in video, but then

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<v Speaker 2>came to understand how crucial they were to the American

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<v Speaker 2>technology stack and that his aid so basically said to him,

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<v Speaker 2>Jensen's great. Can I ask you, did you ever discuss

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<v Speaker 2>with the president the idea of breaking up in video

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<v Speaker 2>and why that was included in his speech?

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<v Speaker 1>No, I wasn't in the meeting with the president, but

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<v Speaker 1>I think what the President was referring to, is that

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<v Speaker 1>Nvidia has just done a phenomenal job in building products

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<v Speaker 1>and applications and GPUs that the world is using, and

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<v Speaker 1>that they're so ahead of the curve. So if you

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<v Speaker 1>listen to the second lot of what the President said,

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<v Speaker 1>he talked about how it's going to take several years

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<v Speaker 1>for people to catch up with them. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>that's kind of one of the pieces that's put America

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<v Speaker 1>in this pole position when it comes to the GPU,

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<v Speaker 1>is that everybody in the world wants to get access.

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<v Speaker 2>To We appreciate the clarity issue round open source, very prominent,

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<v Speaker 2>very high up in the AI Action Plan. Why that's

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<v Speaker 2>something you're particularly focused on as well.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, And this is an issue near and dear to

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<v Speaker 1>my heart. And this is something which I think the

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<v Speaker 1>Biden administration got totally wrong, where they tried to basically

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<v Speaker 1>scare people about open source. We believe that open source

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<v Speaker 1>is the integral part of innovation, of how academic research

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<v Speaker 1>is done, how you get little tech to innovate quickly

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<v Speaker 1>and be on a level playing field. And we think

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<v Speaker 1>America should win. And you know, the first day when

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<v Speaker 1>I took this job, we had Deep Sea come out

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<v Speaker 1>and really, you know, send a signal that America wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>actually leading in open source at the time, and we

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<v Speaker 1>believe that needs we rectified. And that's why in the

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<v Speaker 1>action plan we send a very strong signal that open

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<v Speaker 1>source or open weights America is going to have a

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<v Speaker 1>leadership position.

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<v Speaker 3>Another thing near in dat to your heart is pro wrestling,

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<v Speaker 3>and it feels like we're in a wrestling match between

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<v Speaker 3>China and the US, and I'm really interested as to

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<v Speaker 3>how you navigate the rules of that wrestling match. For example,

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<v Speaker 3>China gives US rare earth metal access in return, we

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<v Speaker 3>give them some H twenties. But how does Vialion navigate

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<v Speaker 3>if China stops and chokes that will they have to

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<v Speaker 3>be limited in H twenty How do they get certainty

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<v Speaker 3>in this environment?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, first of all, if you're talking pro wrestling, let's

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<v Speaker 1>speak clear. We have the face, we have the baby

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<v Speaker 1>face who's going to ultimately go over for all of

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<v Speaker 1>you pro wrestling fans. But look, you know, the way

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<v Speaker 1>we think about it is we want the American tech

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<v Speaker 1>stack to win. One of the metrics I talk about

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<v Speaker 1>is every token that is inferenced worldwide, we want it

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<v Speaker 1>to be on an American GPU or using an American model,

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<v Speaker 1>how many our Quaterllion tokens there are, And when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to the head twenty, I think the way we

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<v Speaker 1>think about it is we would much rather have Nvideo

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<v Speaker 1>or AMD be the GPU of choice rather using Huawei

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<v Speaker 1>or somebody else's. And that's how we.

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<v Speaker 3>See it in video is a babyface as a fan favorite.

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<v Speaker 2>I love it.

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<v Speaker 3>Sharam krish Nan has been great having time with you.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you, White House Senior Policy Advisor for AI