The Energy Department might be all in on artificial intelligence, but the increasing apprehension among the American public is starting to pose a challenge, according to the agency\u2019s top official. During a budget hearing on Capitol Hill last week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told lawmakers that \u201cThe country as a whole is going very negative on AI, and this is a risk,\u201d AND that \u201cIt will be a loss to America if we stop this development and this investment and this improvement.\u201d The DOE under Wright has a major role to play in the Trump administration\u2019s ambitious, AI-focused Genesis Mission, with plenty of focus on the national laboratories, especially. Wright said he views opposition to AI as a risk that\u2019s \u201cvery real\u201d and \u201cgrowing, particularly across rural America.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maj. Gen. Christopher Niemi has been nominated to serve as the Air Force\u2019s first-ever chief modernization officer as part of a reorganization of the service\u2019s Air Force Futures. The Trump administration announced Niemi\u2019s nomination for promotion to three-star general last week. If confirmed by lawmakers, he would serve in a dual-hatted position as both the Air Force\u2019s deputy chief of staff for strategy, design and requirements and the service\u2019s official chief modernization officer, according to an Air Force spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Energy Department might be all in on artificial intelligence, but the increasing apprehension among the American public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,313,7340,7341,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-8421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-cybersecurity","12":"tag-departments","13":"tag-government-it-news","14":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}