By Timothy Gardner and Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Prime expertise and energy firm executives will meet with senior U.S. officers on the White Home on Thursday to debate the power assets and infrastructure wanted to energy synthetic intelligence, a White Home official mentioned.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google (NASDAQ:) senior govt Ruth Porat and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are among the many tech firm representatives anticipated to attend, the official mentioned. Executives from prime energy firms may also be on the assembly, which can give attention to the way forward for AI information middle growth, the official mentioned.
Nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan in addition to White Home Chief of Workers Jeff Zients and Nationwide Financial Council Director Lael Brainard may also participate, together with prime Biden administration local weather officers. CNN first reported the assembly.
Power Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo may also meet with the executives. Granholm instructed Reuters in June that President Joe Biden’s administration was asking expertise firms to put money into new climate-friendly energy technology to cowl their surging demand. The surge in demand from AI might complicate Biden’s goal of decarbonizing the facility sector by 2035 to battle local weather change.
“President Biden and Vice President Harris are dedicated to deepening U.S. management in AI by making certain information facilities are inbuilt the US whereas making certain the expertise is developed responsibly,” mentioned White Home spokesperson Robyn Patterson.
Generative AI, or GenAI, can create textual content, photographs and movies in response to open-ended prompts. It has generated buzz about its potential makes use of akin to relieving mundane duties but additionally prompted fears about potential misuse.
The assembly will give attention to fostering public-private work in advancing AI and on workforce and allowing wants related to the expertise.
AI additionally strains the power and metals industries as U.S. expertise firms search to safe a shrinking provide of electrical energy for his or her quickly increasing information facilities.