Google's Sundar Pichai, IBM CEO Krishna, Code.org President Speak at WH AI Summit | AC1G

Through school choice, through school reform, through starting schools, through running camps, through doing everything we can. But with the leaders in this room and the leadership of the first lady and Michael Katzios, I think we can move the needle if we all dig deep in the next few years. God bless you and thank you for being here.

Great. David.

All right. Thank you. Everyone's already been thanked, but I also want to add my thanks to the first lady for championing the presidential AI challenge and your clear dedication to America's school children. So, thank you, Madam First Lady, and also want to thank our OSTP director, Michael Katzios, for his tireless efforts leading this initiative as well, and also helping to make sure the US dominates every part of the AI stack. From his first days in office this year, President Trump has shown visionary and decisive leadership in this critical technology of AI, and we've made amazing progress over the last seven months. There's been too many wins to list all of them here, but I want to just mention a few. In the first week of his administration, President Trump rescinded hundreds of pages of unnecessary regulation on our AI model companies and on our chip companies. Instead, he initiated the development of an AI action plan that we just released a few weeks ago. At the action plan's unveiling on July 23rd, President Trump gave a momentous policy speech on AI, which is the most important speech that's been given on AI by any official. He made the pillars of our AI policy being pro-innovation, pro-infrastructure, pro-export, and pro-worker. He also signed three executive orders that day to help further this policy. The first was to make it easier to build new data centers and energy infrastructure. Thanks to President Trump's leadership, he's already attracted hundreds of billions of dollars of investment into the United States for data centers and energy infrastructure. As he likes to say, the US is the hottest country in the world right now, thanks to his leadership. The second executive order established the American AI Exports Program to ensure American leadership across the world. We want to make sure that the American tech stack wins internationally as well. The third executive order banned the federal government from procuring ideologically biased or woke AI. We want to make sure that AI only pursues truth, fairness, and impartiality. So I think those are just some of the amazing accomplishments that the administration has made over the last seven months. As we meet here to discuss AI education and empowering America's children, it's still the very early days of this incredible industry. I'm reminded of what President Trump said during that AI speech, that American AI is like a beautiful baby that's just been born. We have to grow that baby and let that baby thrive. He's absolutely right about that. We have to enable our children to thrive with it. Let me acknowledge that when it comes to the topic of AI, there is a lot of fear out there. Some people think that AI is going to take all of our jobs. I really don't think that's going to happen. I think AI is going to unleash a productivity boom like we've never seen. It's going to make all of us more productive. It's going to make our jobs more satisfying. There's an online quote that's been flying around that says, you're not going to lose your job to AI, but you might lose your job to someone who uses AI better than you. I think there is some truth to that. AI is going to be the ultimate boost for our workers, and it is important that they learn from an early age how to use AI. That's why it's critical that our school children learn AI, and that's why this program is so important to further AI education. It's important to further it for school children in every part of America, every economic class or bracket, because this is really fundamental equality of opportunity for every child in the country. Finally, the last thing I want to say is that I want to thank all of the companies that are here today who have made pledges to donate their resources to AI education. I think this is really important. President Trump in his AI speech called on our technology companies to promote a new spirit of patriotism and national loyalty, and that's what you're all doing here today. So I think that's fantastic. Each of you and your companies and the nonprofits who are here today have recognized the opportunity to serve your fellow citizens and help build a great American future. You're all in for America. We really appreciate that. You're putting America first, and we look forward to hearing more about your contributions. I think we'll do that next. Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you so much, David. I think now we'll briefly hear from three of our more than 135 generous pledge signers. Arvin Krishna from IBM, Cameron Wilson from code.org, and Sundar Pichai from Google each say a few words about their contributions. Arvin, if you want to start.

Thank you. Good afternoon everyone. It's a privilege to be here and contribute to help build America's AI ready workforce. Let me begin by first thanking the first lady, Mrs. Melania Trump, for helping lead this effort and galvanize all of us into contributing, but also to President Trump for all of his efforts around AI as David just spoke about. Let me also thank the cabinet members who are here for all the efforts that they are putting into helping build America's AI ready workforce. Addressing the AI skills gap is going to be essential for us to achieve what we all want to with AI contributing to America's leadership but also to America's productivity. The president's AI action plan shows us the way to that future by empowering American workers to lead in the AI economy. As the plan highlights, US companies also have a central role to play in building this workforce. By partnering with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and communities, as well as educators, we can deliver the training that meets the demands of the labor market. IBM has long embraced this collaborative approach and we are fully committed to upholding this responsibility. We are proud to join the pledge by committing to train 2 million American workers in cutting edge AI skills over the next three years. We will do this through a groundbreaking program called IBM Skills Build, which we launched to help expand access to AI education but also to create pathways for these high demand technical roles. A quick example: Zach Switzer is a high school teacher at the John Marshall School of IT in Cleveland. He used IBM Skills Build to acquire the foundation knowledge himself and then to give his students that knowledge. These examples need to get multiplied a hundred and thousandfold in order to bring these AI skills into the communities. Teachers like Zach in schools across the country can access AI learning through IBM Skills Build, adopt the modules into the classroom, and then help the students gain these valuable skills to take into the workforce and hopefully find a great paying job. This is only one of many success stories, but when it comes to meeting the growing demand for AI, no organization can do it alone. This is why IBM is proud to be part of the president's program and part of his national AI education initiative with its emphasis on collaboration across the different sectors. We look forward to working with the administration and with all of our partners to achieve these goals. Thank you. With that, Cameron Wilson of code.org.