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A profile of White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, an ex-Peter Thiel aide who is among a handful of players steering the Trump administration's AI policy

The fight to regulate AI and reform American science runs through a little-known White House office, and the Thiel-turned-Trump aide in charge of it

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