Michael Kratsios: Inside the White House's AI Strategy
White House OSTP director frames US AI regulatory environment as critical to American global leadership
“American leadership in these emerging technologies is one of the most critical questions of our time for the American people to have all these benefits that AI is going to offer. We have to make sure that we have regulatory environment that allows that that succeed.”
Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and one of the architects of America's national AI strategy, spoke at YC Startup School about his motivations for returning to government. He emphasized that the US regulatory environment is a decisive factor in whether America wins the AI race, and framed government as uniquely positioned to work on problems at civilizational scale. The content is lightly substantive — more biographical than policy-specific — but signals the administration's pro-innovation, light-touch regulatory posture from the top AI policy official.