She showed President Biden ChatGPT—and helped set the course for AI
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This week, WIRED Start speaks with Arati Prabhakar , the woman who has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.
One day in March 2023, Arati Prabhakar brought a laptop into the Oval Office and showed the future to Joe Biden. Six months later, the president issued a sweeping executive order that set a regulatory course for AI. This all happened because ChatGPT stunned the world.
In an instant it became very, very obvious that the United States needed to speed up its efforts to regulate the AI industry. The job fell to Prabhakar, well, because she is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
WIRED’s Steven Levy spoke to Arati Prabhakar about how Bruce Springsteen figured into Biden’s first ChatGPT demo, her hopes for a semiconductor renaissance in the US, and why Biden’s war on cancer is different from every other president’s war on cancer.
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