Michael Kratsios
Michael Kratsios is the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Notable Quotes
"As the Trump administration has now said many times: We totally reject global governance of AI."View Story →
"We totally reject global governance of AI."View Story →
"AI adoption cannot lead to a brighter future if it is subject to bureaucracies and centralised control."View Story →
"Moonshot AI distillation capabilities from Anthropic's Fable AI for the development of its K3 model."View Story →
"industrial-scale theft of US AI technology."View Story →
"As methods to detect and mitigate industrial-scale distillation grow more sophisticated, foreign entities who build their AI capabilities on such fragile foundations should have little confidence in the integrity and reliability of the models they produce."View Story →
"The administration will work with American AI companies to identify such activities, build defenses and find ways to punish offenders."View Story →
"these foreign entities are using tens of thousands of proxies and jailbreaking techniques in coordinated campaigns to systematically extract American breakthroughs."View Story →
"The U.S. has evidence that foreign entities, primarily in China, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American AI."View Story →
"foreign entities, principally based in China were exploiting American firms."View Story →
"these foreign entities are using tens of thousands of proxies and jailbreaking techniques in coordinated campaigns to systematically extract American breakthroughs."View Story →
"International dialogue in this forum and others cannot be allowed to drift toward global governance."View Story →
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June 5, 2026White House memo claims mass AI theft by Chinese firms
A memo from Michael Kratsios says firms, mainly in China, are wrongfully distilling US AI models.
April 24, 2026White House accuses China of industrial-scale theft of AI technology - Reuters
White House accuses China of industrial-scale theft of AI technology Reuters
April 23, 2026Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss
But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: "We totally reject global governance of AI."
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