Executives from leading artificial intelligence (AI) corporations, including OpenAI, Nvidia, Anthropic, Microsoft (MS), and Google, met on the White House to debate energy issues related to the increasing demand for AI. Now, the AI energy issue has change into a national infrastructure issue.
CNBC reported on the twelfth (local time) that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Antropic CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Google President Ruth Porat, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Matt Garman discussed AI energy use, data center capability, semiconductor manufacturing, and power grid capability on the White House.
The meeting was also attended by White House officials, including National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and National Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi, in addition to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
“We’re firstly of a brand new industrial revolution,” said CEO Jensen Huang after the meeting. “What this industry needs is energy.” He continued, “Because the expansion is so fast, this can be a field that needs public-private collaboration.”
The White Home is holding this meeting as an try and be sure that the US continues to guide the AI industry. The meeting also discussed the creation of AI-related jobs and priorities for AI infrastructure.
OpenAI shared the outcomes of a simulation of the roles and GDP that may be created if large-scale data centers were inbuilt Wisconsin, California, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
OpenAI said it “believes that constructing additional AI infrastructure in america is critical to America’s AI industrial policy and future economy.”
“The Biden administration will construct data centers in america while ensuring that AI technologies are developed responsibly,” White House press secretary Robin Patterson said. “In doing so, we’ll strengthen America’s leadership in AI.”
Prior to this, the Biden administration launched the ‘AI Safety and Security Board’, a federal advisory body for the protected use of AI, in April.
This board is an advisory body established to forestall hostile effects of AI and to make use of AI systems safely. President Biden directed its establishment through an executive order last yr and announced the list of twenty-two advisory members. Individuals who were included on this advisory board attended the meeting that day.
Reporter Park Chan cpark@aitimes.com
