I'll say again that we're at the very early stages of this technology.
One thing I'm thinking about is that AI will not only impact industry; it'll impact our civil society writ large, it'll impact the way we provide social services and it'll also impact other science and research areas. I don't think we're paying enough attention, for example, to the impact of AI on inventing new materials and the potential for AI to impact our understanding of biological systems.
When we talk about funding, we're currently putting funding into developing new AI techniques. I think we should be thinking about how we can support the proliferation of AI across disciplines, because if we can more rapidly develop new materials, that will impact industry in a pretty profound way.
To think that my students are going to do the materials science research is probably a little naive. To make sure the materials science students have the AI tools to impact that field will have much more impact.
What I would encourage you to think about is proliferating AI research across the academic enterprise as a way to build an AI ecosystem writ large across the country. We want medical schools to understand AI techniques deeply so that they can train a new generation of doctors who feel comfortable with these systems, understand issues of privacy and safety, and feel comfortable then developing these new systems and adopting them more rapidly.