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The earliest days of one of the most important technological revolutions in the history of the world
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Around the globe, everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. I find that too. Artificial. I can't stand it
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I don't even like the name. I don't like anything that's artificial. So could we straighten that out, please? We should change the name
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I actually mean that. I don't like the name artificial anything. Because it's not artificial. It's genius. It's pure genius
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and its potential to transform every type of human endeavor and domain of human knowledge from medicine to manufacturing to warfare and national defense
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Whether we like it or not, we're suddenly engaged in a fast-paced competition to build and define this groundbreaking technology that will determine so much about the future of civilization itself
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because of the genius and creativity of Silicon Valley. And it is incredible, incredible genius
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Without question, the most brilliant place anywhere on Earth. America is the country that started the AI race
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And as President of the United States I here today to declare that America is going to win it We going to work hard We going to win it
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Because we will not allow any foreign nation to beat us. Our children will not live on a planet controlled by the algorithms of the adversaries advancing values and interests contrary to our own
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We don't want to have contrary interests. We want to get along. And we'll get along with other countries
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We're having a great relationship, as I told you, with those countries that we mentioned
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with Japan and Indonesia and so many others. The European Union, we're getting along
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We're getting along very well with China. A lot of respect for President Xi
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We have a great relationship. And we'll see how it all works out
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But we're getting along with countries very ... It's really been pretty amazing, I will say that
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And it's a good thing. It's a good thing, not a bad thing. So from this day forward, it'll be a policy of the United States
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to do whatever it takes to lead the world in artificial intelligence. Such an important thing happening
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This is really something that nobody expected. It just popped out of the popped out of the air and here we are But we will defend our nation our values our future and our freedom And it will be really great
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But we what we really need to be successful is a very simple phrase called common sense
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And that begins with a common sense application of artificial and intellectual property rules
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It's so important. You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for
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Gee, I read a book. I'm supposed to pay somebody. And, you know, we appreciate that, but you just can't do it because it's not doable
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And if you're going to try and do that, you're not going to have a successful program. I think most of the people in the room know what I mean
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When a person reads a book or an article, you've gained great knowledge
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that does not mean that you're violating copyright laws or have to make deals with every content
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provider and that's a big thing that you're working on right now i know but you just can't do it
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china's not doing it and if you're going to be beating china and right now we're leading china
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very substantially in ai very very substantially and nobody seen the the amount of work that going to be bursting upon the scene But you have to be able to play by the same set of rules So when you have something when you read something and when it goes into this vast intelligence
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machine, we'll call it, you cannot expect to every time, every single time say, oh, let's pay this
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one that much, let's pay this one. It just doesn't work that way. Of course, you can't copy or
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plagiarize an article, but if you read an article and learn from it, we have to allow
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AI to use that pool of knowledge without going through the complexity of contract negotiations
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of which there would be thousands for every time we use AI
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We also have to have a single federal standard, not 50 different states regulating this industry
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of the future. And some people would say, gee, that's an unpopular thing to say
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I was told before I got up here this is an unpopular thing because some people, they don't want that
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But I want you to be successful. And you can't have one state holding you up
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You can't have three or four states holding you up. You can't have a state with standards that are so high
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that it's going to hold you up. You have to have a federal rule and regulation
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Hopefully you'll have the right guy in this position that's going to..
