Episode 811: AI Summit

Newt's World

Gingrich 360

News, Politics

4.7 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Vice President JD Vance attended an AI summit in France, where he emphasized the Trump administration's commitment to American technological leadership in AI. Newt’s guest is Neil Chilson, head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute. They discuss various emergent technologies, including quantum computing, biotechnology, and small modular reactors. Chilson highlights the shift in focus at the AI Summit from safety concerns to ensuring global competitiveness and inclusion in AI advancements. Their discussion also addresses the regulatory landscape in the US and Europe, the global AI race, and the rivalry between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI. Chilson emphasizes the importance of maintaining a pro-innovation environment in the US to stay ahead in the AI race.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Nutsworld, Vice President J.D. Vance attended an AI summit meeting in France on Tuesday, hosted by France and India.
0:13.0	In his opening address, he described his vision of a coming era of American technological domination.
0:19.9	He said, quote,
0:23.0	the Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI systems
0:25.2	are built in the U.S.
0:26.6	with American design and manufactured chips.
0:30.1	Here to discuss the AI summit,
0:32.0	I'm really pleased to welcome back my guest, Neil Chilson.
0:35.3	He's a lawyer, computer scientist,
0:41.4	an author of the book, Getting Out of Control, Emergent Leadership in a Complex World.
0:43.8	As head of the AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, Chilson works to create a policy
0:48.4	and cultural environment where emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, can develop and thrive.
1:09.0	Neil, welcome and thank you for joining again on NewTorl.
1:12.5	It's great to be back.
1:13.8	Before we get into AI, tell us just for a minute about the Abundance Institute.
1:18.1	Yeah, so the Abundance Institute is a mission-driven nonprofit.
1:21.6	We're focused on the policy and the culture around emerging technologies and making sure that the policy and cultural
1:29.5	environments let emerging technologies get full-throated market tests to try to solve the problems
1:35.8	that we know that historically that technology can do to create widespread human prosperity.
1:41.3	So we do that in lots of different ways, including policy at the federal and the
1:45.6	state level in the U.S. When you think about emergent technologies beyond artificial intelligence,
1:52.1	what else do you think about? There's so much. We have quantum computing, which is another new
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