Tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft as well as retailers, banks, drugmakers, carmakers and food companies are participating at a White House event Thursday on artificial intelligence. Some tech leaders have pushed the administration to focus more on AI and related issues in science and technology. The leaders of France and the UK have talked about making AI investments while also outlining concerns about developing the new technology with ethical guidelines. Holdren noted that his former job leading the nearly 40-year-old Office of Science and Technology Policy remains unfilled. Dean Garfield, who heads the trade group Information Technology Industry Council, said the White House's attention to AI is "better late than never."

Source: ABC News May 10, 2018 06:56 UTC