The Obtain: Nominate an Innovator Underneath 35, and AI coverage

Yearly, MIT Know-how Assessment acknowledges 35 younger innovators who’re doing pioneering work throughout a spread of technical fields together with biotechnology, supplies science, synthetic intelligence, computing, and extra. 

Earlier winners embrace Lisu Su, now CEO of AMD, Andrew Ng, a pc scientist and serial entrepreneur, Jack Dorsey (two years after he launched Twitter), and Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot.

We’re now taking nominations for our 2025 record and you may submit one right here. The method takes only a few minutes. Nominations will shut at 11:59 PM ET on January 20, 2025. You may nominate your self or somebody you recognize, based mostly wherever on this planet. The one rule is that the nominee have to be below the age of 35 on October 1, 2025. Learn extra about what we’re on the lookout for right here.

How US AI coverage would possibly change below Trump

President Biden first witnessed the capabilities of ChatGPT in 2022 throughout a demo from Arati Prabhakar, the Director of the White Home Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage, within the oval workplace.

That demo set a slew of occasions into movement, and inspired President Biden to help the US’s AI sector, whereas managing the security dangers that may come from it. 

Nonetheless, that method might change below Trump. Our AI reporter James O’Donnell sat down with Prabhakar earlier this month to debate what could be subsequent. Learn the complete story.

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