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Senate nominees debate AI strategy, standards and industrial policy as OSTP nominee Ethan Klein outlines priorities
Summary
Ethan Klein, nominated to be associate director of OSTP and U.S. chief technology officer, told senators he supports OSTP’s AI action plan, emphasized industry adoption and standards work at NIST, and flagged energy and supply‑chain issues; senators pressed him on NIST’s role, quantum research and commercialization, and government access to AI.
Ethan Klein, President Trump’s nominee to serve as associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and U.S. chief technology officer, told the Senate Commerce Committee he would continue implementing the administration’s AI action plan and focus OSTP on reducing barriers to industry adoption, coordinating federal R&D, and advancing public‑private partnerships.
Klein described OSTP’s charge as securing U.S. leadership in critical technologies and said OSTP should modernize models of collaboration between government, academia and industry. He said that NIST is an appropriate…
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