Michael Kratsios
Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Trump's science adviser and OSTP director, tasked in 2026 with drafting a legal definition of 'Super Intelligence'.
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- US and 16 countries endorse the 'Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science' on using 'super intelligence' for research ★★★
On Oct 4, 2026, at the 23rd Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum in Kyoto, the US and 16 other countries endorsed the "Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science", led by White House science adviser Michael Kratsios. The non-binding declaration names three priorities: improving discovery…
- SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, OpenAI's biggest outside backer, warns superintelligence in the wrong hands is 'super dangerous' ★★★
Speaking in Kyoto on Oct 4, 2026 on the sidelines of the STS Forum, alongside White House science adviser Michael Kratsios, Masayoshi Son said superintelligence in the wrong hands can become "super dangerous" and that countries must build trust to control powerful AI: "We don't have any more…
- Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House; they sign a voluntary 'morally binding' Accord on Superintelligence, and Trump rejects new federal AI rules ★★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 President Trump hosted about 31 tech leaders and officials at a White House lunch on whether and how to regulate AI, after a month of lab leaders calling for a slowdown. Guests included Amodei, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Huang, Nadella, Musk and Speaker Mike Johnson. Afterwards…
- Trump signs executive order 'Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence', ordering federal agencies to replace 'AI' with 'Super Intelligence (SI)' ★★★
On the evening of Sept 29, 2026, after the White House AI summit, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence". It directs executive departments and agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI" in…
- Trump says he will form an 'AI Force' and name an AI czar, while calling AI-safety fears a 'hoax' ★★★
In a Truth Social post on Saturday Sept 19, 2026, President Trump said he would form an "AI Force", "much like I did Space Force", and soon name an AI czar ("Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!"). He said the government would "not in any way hinder or stifle" the industry and would police "BAD"…
- Anthropic tells US senators and the White House that Alibaba's Qwen lab ran the largest known distillation campaign on Claude (28.8M exchanges) ★★★
Bloomberg reported on June 24, 2026 that Anthropic had sent a letter (dated June 10) to the Senate Banking Committee and White House officials accusing operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen lab of "adversarial distillation": about 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through nearly 25,000 fraudulent…
- David Sacks ends his stint as White House AI and crypto czar and becomes co-chair of PCAST ★★
On March 26, 2026 venture capitalist David Sacks said in a Bloomberg interview that his time as Trump's AI and crypto czar was over, because his status as a special government employee is capped at 130 days a year. He moved to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology…
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