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Michael Kratsios

Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Search every verified Michael Kratsios interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has been a prominent advocate for the Trump administration's science and technology agenda, particularly around artificial intelligence and "superintelligence." In October 2026, he announced $2.4 billion in private-sector contributions from companies including Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to support scientific research and computing credits, alongside a $6 billion White House investment to boost U.S. science. Kratsios also discussed the administration's rebranding of the Presidential AI Challenge to the "S.I. Challenge," aimed at training students, and highlighted efforts to revitalize the National Science Foundation's Young Scholars program for K-12 STEM education. He emphasized the importance of data centers and workforce development, including blue-collar job training programs, and stated that the U.S. "will and must win the AI race." Kratsios has also spoken on a range of policy topics, including quantum computing, regulation, and scientific priorities. At the Quantum World Congress in September 2026, he highlighted executive orders signed by President Trump to accelerate fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2028 and transition federal systems to post-quantum cryptography by 2031. He has advocated for a lighter regulatory touch on AI, citing the EU AI Act as an example of rules that were outdated before major models emerged, and called for a single national framework to provide clarity for startups. In interviews, he argued that the scientific community has "lost its way" over recent decades due to politicization, and he defended the administration's approach to climate science, stating that the data does not support a "climate emergency." He also discussed the competitive race with China, asserting that U.S. frontier models remain ahead by three to six months.

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“It's very critical. I think what's so special and unique about America's innovation ecosystem is that it has all these different parts. It has the government that funds basic research, it has the private sector, it has academic institutions which does work, and what we were able to do last Thursday was to bring the entire ecosystem together only in a way like President Trump could to get them to commit to ensure we c”

“There are three strategic priorities the US needs to get right as laid out in President Trump's AI action plan. The first is we need to remove barriers to innovation and accelerate research and development. We are already at work looking for regulatory roadblocks innovation and seeing where we can update or remove them entirely. This effort will ensure the US is a home for the next great technologies to be created an”

“The Genesis mission is a great example of how President Trump has moved fast in less than a year in order for the US to lean in and win the AI race. Genesis is the largest marshalling of federal scientific resources in recent history and at a scale and an urgency at the Apollo mission or even the Manhattan project. We are bringing together the unmatched power of our national laboratories, supercomputers, and the nati”

“The thing that is not true and what the data does not support is that it is a climate emergency. And I think one of the best examples of that is what's happened with these RCP 8.5 they call it. So these are scenarios that climate scientists try to estimate kind of the impact of this quote unquote climate change will have on the world. And this was the most extreme scenario that had been in numerous national climate a”

“I think the scientific community has lost its way over the last few decades. I think America has been the place of some of the most amazing scientific transformations in history and the government has played an important role in a lot of them. If we look back and think about the Manhattan project or Apollo these are sort of seismic events that only the US government could bring together the ecosystem to achieve. And ”

“I think the answer to that really is you don't want to set very firm red lines in the sand because they ultimately don't work. And I think the best example of that in the world right now is the EU AI act. So when we were in the first Trump administration, the EU went through a lot of fanfare and spent many years putting together this EU AI act and this rule of essentially regulation through Europe was passed and fina”

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