David Friedberg
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard 21 Aug
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I will say I'm honored to be invited and appointed by the president, and I appreciate Sax and Michael Kratios.
You look back at PCAST, it's kind of rooted in FDR when he formed this Council of Advisors on Science, when nuclear physics and quantum mechanics was starting to kind of reinvent what was possible in the world.
We're sort of at a similar era today because arguably AI is reinventing what is possible in the world.
And I think there's this kind of acute moment that we find ourselves in, in this extraordinary race against China.
I'll give you a statistic.
10 years ago, China published 50% of the number of scientific research papers and peer reviewed journals as the United States.
Last year, they published 50% more than the United States.
This is across all disciplines and domains, including physics, material science, chemistry, biochemistry, broad life sciences.
There's this moment that we're in right now where both the world is being reinvented by AI,
But there's this extraordinary race with China, not just in fundamental research and discovery, but in the industrialization of new discoveries and new technologies.
You could feel it in DC this week.
I was at the Hill and Valley Forum, but literally everyone in Silicon Valley, everyone in DC is like...
absolutely honed and focused in on what is going on in China.
It used to be in biotechnology, for example, that China was kind of a copycat and a me too, or they were really good, for example, in manufacturing.
But it is now the case that in many subdomains, China is becoming the scientific leader in biotechnology and in life sciences.
And that is a scary thought.
Because ultimately, China could end up engulfing the entire pharmaceutical industry, and basically becoming the leader in things like medicine, but
most importantly, foundational things like AI.
So I just want to defend and speak for a moment about the choice about putting what I would say are like industrial science and technology leaders on this commission, because this is a moment where there's an industrial race, not just a discovery race underway.
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