Power Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday in contrast the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI) to an American atomic bomb program throughout World Battle II.
“The AI race is the second Manhattan venture,” Wright stated in a Tuesday post on the social platform X.
Throughout the Second World Battle, the U.S. authorities’s Manhattan Project finally succeeded within the creation of atomic weapons that the American army used in opposition to Japan within the latter half of the battle.
Amid the worldwide race to beat AI, President Trump has confronted elevated stress to withhold emerging U.S. technology from worldwide adversaries whereas making certain American chipmakers dominate the worldwide stage.
In Could, the president signed a number of multibillion-dollar AI offers between U.S. corporations and Gulf nations throughout a visit to the Center East.
On Tuesday, Trump introduced $92 billion in new personal knowledge heart and vitality investments as his administration seeks to bolster the U.S.’s energy provide in an effort to rapidly develop AI, which consumes a big quantity of vitality.
The president unveiled investments from 20 prime vitality and know-how corporations, together with Google, CoreWeave, and Blackstone, at Sen. Dave McCormick’s (R-Pa.) first Pittsburgh-based Pennsylvania Power and Innovation Summit.