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Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy · August 2025 · Keynote, Remarks at the APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting

The true technological and new industrial revolution we look forward to today is not the frontier AI systems themselves, but what our peoples will do with them.

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Michael Kratsios, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
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Remarks at the APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting
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whitehouse.gov/releases/2025/08/remarks-by-director-kratsios-at-the-apec-digital-and-ai-ministerial-meeting/

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