Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This week, we’re bringing you an episode of The Journal, produced by Spotify and the Wall Street Journal. In this episode, recorded at WSJ’s Tech Live, host Jessica Mendoza sits down with Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, to discuss everything from chips to chatbots, how Kratsios thinks AI should be regulated, and whether or not the AI boom might be a bubble.

Chapters:
00:00 The AI race between China and the U.S.
00:30 Introducing Michael Kratsios
02:29 The U.S. AI plan
05:14 US-China tech competition
07:45 Public perception and AI safety concerns
11:26 Regulating AI
14:52 Power generation and the future of AI
17:55 Conclusion: the AI marathon

WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.

Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at BoldNames@wsj.com

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