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Although artificial intelligence has the potential to transform a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, both government and industry need the right policies in place to responsibly use and promote trust in the technology, speakers said at the SelectUSA Investment Summit.
Enacting policies that support AI-related workforce training and K-12 education initiatives, along with creating a more cohesive regulatory environment across states and shoring up the power grid, topped the wishlists of industry experts speaking at the U.S. Department of Commerce event in National Harbor, Maryland.
Olivia Negus, director for trust, data and technology policy at the Information Technology Industry Council, said she is excited about the way AI has made a variety of industries more productive.
“We really are seeing transformational applications across all sorts of different sectors of the economy,” she said during a May 4 session. “I think we’re just at the beginning of that.”
