00:00Well thank you witnesses for your testimony and I'll start off with the first round of questions
00:04and move Don Dias to our ranking member here. Thank you for your testimony. Certainly makes
00:10me sleep better at night worried about Terminator and Skynet coming after us knowing that you guys
00:15are behind the wheel. But in five words or less, start with you Mr. Smith. What are the first,
00:22what are the five words you need to see from our government to make sure we win this AI race?
00:27More electricians. That's two words. Broader AI education. And no using chat GPT as a phone a
00:40friend. Thank you. I would say that we need to focus on streamlining the ability to build large things.
00:52Policies to help us run faster in the innovation race.
01:02Allow supply chain sensible policy. That was good.
01:06So what I hear there is something pretty similar to the races we've won before. Nuclear energy for
01:15example, you know, the Germans and Austrians really led the innovation around that, but we won the race
01:21because we put a massive government effort collaborating with our universities and others to
01:26win that race. Space, you know, the Soviets put the first satellite up, put the first man in space,
01:31but we won the space race because we adopted a framework to ensure that we won aviation, automobiles,
01:38et cetera. So what I, what I hear from you is, is you, you do need support from our government,
01:43but you also need the government to stay out of your way so you can innovate and win this race.
01:50How do we incentivize companies to do business here in America to make sure we win this race in
01:56America and America leads not just China, but other non-state actors too? I mean, I think that the
02:01scariest thing about AI from a capability standpoint is it doesn't have to be a state actor to win this
02:06race. It's not like nuclear energy. It's not like space technology. I mean, a non-state actor could just
02:11as easily win this race and wield more power than anyone else. So how do we encourage innovators'
02:17investment to happen here in America to ensure we win this race? Mr. Elliman, you want to start?
02:22Sure. We were honored to announce back in January, Project Stargate, a $500 billion investment in
02:28United States infrastructure that is now well underway. As I mentioned, getting to see it
02:32yesterday in Abilene, the first site was incredible. We need a lot more of that. We need
02:36certainty on the ability to build out this entire supply chain, build the data centers, permit the
02:43electricity. We'd love to bring chip production here, network production here, server rack production
02:47here. And I think the world does want to invest. We have a lot of global investment flowing into the
02:54U.S. to do this. We also want to make sure that other countries are able to build with our technology,
03:00use our models, and sort of like be in our orbit and use U.S. diffusion of technology here.
03:07So that's really important. We need to make sure that the highest skilled researchers that want to come
03:12work at U.S. companies can come here and do that. We need to make sure that companies like OpenAI and
03:21others have legal clarity on how we're going to operate. Of course, there will be rules. Of course,
03:26there need to be some guardrails. This is a very impactful technology, but we need to be able to be
03:30competitive globally. We need to be able to train. We need to be able to understand how we're going to
03:34offer services and sort of where the rules of the road are going to be. So clarity there, and I think an
03:40approach like the Internet, which did lead to flourishing of this country in a very big way,
03:45we need that again. Dr. Hsu. I would add, I think computing is a foundation to all of this.
03:53We want to have more compute built in the U.S. by U.S. companies and ensure that we have a great
03:59environment for that. We want to ensure that our technology around the world is also used broadly
04:05and in the right ways. So I think the conversation about export controls and rules should just be
04:12simple, easy to follow, easy to enforce, and enable U.S. AI platforms to be the foundation.
04:19And then certainly the comments around bringing manufacturing back home and ensuring that we
04:24have the right talent base are all extremely important elements of that.
04:28Are companies weighing doing business in AI in America versus China? Are the companies making
04:35that side-by-side comparison? I think if you look across the world, there are countries and companies
04:42that will ask those questions. If it's hard to obtain U.S. technology, although U.S. technology is the
04:49best, if it's hard to obtain, then there's a hunger for AI and they will choose what is available. And if
04:55China is available, that will certainly be an outcome that we would not like to see.
05:02Well, I think I hear the words infrastructure, electricians, universities, regulatory framework,
05:08and I think those are things we can help with. I hear words like innovation and talent, and I say,
05:13I hear Dr. Su, run faster. Those aren't things that government can't manufacture talent. We can't
05:19make you run faster, but we can give you the tools to do that. And I think it's time that we create a
05:24framework so that you have the tools you need to win this race, because you're going to be the ones
05:28that win it, not us. Thank you for your testimony and recommend.
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