America’s Plan to Dominate the Full AI Stack with Sriram Krishnan
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Who is Sriram Krishnan and what is his role in the White House AI policy team?
Hi listeners, welcome back to No Priors. Today Alad and I are here with Shri Ram Krishnan, a top White House official currently serving as the Senior White House policy advisor on artificial intelligence. A former tech executive and venture capitalist, he's one of the lead authors on the American AI Action Plan released this past week. We talk about the national implications of the AI race, what position we hold today, the workforce and energy needs of the future, and how to win.
Jiraram, thank you so much for joining us today for No Pires.
Thank you for having me. I'm a long term fan. I've never been invited before. I was always a bit sad, but no, thank you for having me for the very first time. And before I just have to point out for folks who are listening on audio that Elad has never looked as good, as dashing, as handsome as he does. Now, Elad, you've dressed up for me. I'm honored.
This is how you can tell that Sri Ram is in politics now. He has the liquid tongue of gold with which he coaxes everybody into doing his bidding. So it's very good. So you know, for our audience, Sri Ram has been a well-known Silicon Valley individual. He worked at Andreasen Horowitz, he worked at a number of the sort of marquee companies and names in Silicon Valley over the last decade plus. And now he's in government and he's really working on a variety of exciting initiatives around AI and other areas. Could you tell us a little bit more? about your role and should we be calling you your excellency or is there some special title we should be using now that you're in government?
You don't have to, but I will take it. But no, thank you. It's fascinating for me to be here talking to you in this capacity because I've known both of you for forever and ever. You know, we've had hundreds of interactions and also been such a fan of the part. Congratulations. Just give a little bit of backstory. I've been in Silicon Valley for a long time. I feel very old. Uh I did a tour of all the large consumer social media companies and then um I was at uh Andreessen Horowitz for the last four years, uh, competing actively for CDZA term seats with both of you folks, I'm sure.
What triggered the creation of the America AI Action Plan?
And all this while I had no real intention of joining government. I wasn't very particularly interested in policy. But what wound up happening is a couple of years ago, I moved to England to head up Olif Andreessen's international efforts. And at the time, the UK was kind of a hotbed of all. All the AI policy debates. They had this AI safety summit uh at Bletchley Park, and this was kind of the peak of I would say the effective altruist versus the EAC kind of drama which is going on. And I got pulled into a lot of those discussions, and I remember thinking to myself, like, wow, a lot of people who are me in very senior roles in governments in the United States back then uh and and other Parts of the world didn't know what they were talking about when it came to AI.
Uh, I was convinced that they were doing the absolute wrong thing on many topics, for example, open source or helping startups. And it was just really, really bad in a way which I think the industry didn't really appreciate until much later. And that got me interested into just policy, which by the way was a word which I didn't even understand what it means. We can even get into what that means, but uh but it got it got me interested. Policy. When President Trump got inaugurated in the first week, he did two things. One, he r rescinded the Biden executive order on AI, which was bad and awful in many, many ways, which we can get into. And then he signed a new executive order, which basically said that America should dominate and win on AI.
And he then he called upon a few of us to say, you guys need to come up with a plan within six months to figure out how America's gonna dominate and win. And so that put us off with the races. And I think everything that has happened since then culminated in the event that we had yesterday where we put together, you know, we put out this long document twenty eight page document on America's action plan.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Sriram Krishnan and what is his role in the White House AI policy team?
0:05–1:52
2
What triggered the creation of the America AI Action Plan?
1:52–4:46
3
How does Sriram define what winning the AI race looks like for the United States?
4:46–7:54
4
Why are algorithmic bias and cultural influence a concern for AI policy?
7:54–12:06
5
What are the core tenets of the America AI Action Plan that Sriram helped author?
12:06–17:17
6
Which energy and infrastructure bottlenecks must be solved to scale AI?
17:17–24:41
7
How can the United States ensure dominance in robotics and autonomous systems?
24:41–30:27
8
What mechanisms will translate the AI Action Plan into real‑world industry impact?
30:27–36:45
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