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Members of the committee, thank you
for the opportunity to be here today to

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discuss the steps that must be taken to

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ensure US leadership in AI. My name is

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Alexander Wang. I'm the founder and CEO
of Scale AI. Today's hearing is personal

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for me. I grew up in Los Alamos,
where my parents were physicists at the

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National Lab, the birthplace
of the atomic bomb. They taught me that

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America's leadership in science and

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technology is vital to our national

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security and global strength. At MIT,
I learned that progress in AI depends on

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three key elements. data,
compute and algorithms. While most

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of my classmates pursued expertise
in comput and algorithms, few were focused

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on the data challenge. That inspired me

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to start scale. We deliver expert level

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data and offer technology solutions
to leading AI labs, multinational

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enterprises, and the US government and

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our allies. At scale, we keep humans at

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the center of everything we do because

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AI should always work for us, not the

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other way around. Over the past decade,

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it's become clear that the United States
faces intense global competition in

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determining how AI should evolve and who

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should lead. In 2018, the Chinese
Communist Party's AI master plan started

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taking shape. They were already
developing advanced AI capabilities and

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using that technology to surveil
and suppress their people. Fast forward to

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today, their plan is more sophisticated

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and expansive. It includes four key

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areas of focus. First, the CCP is taking

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a whole of country approach,
having recently launched their AI plus

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initiative. Second, the CCP is

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outinvesting us in data, spending
billions on AI ready data and unlocking

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vast public data sets to fuel AI systems.
Third, they're finding ways to

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catch up on compute and building out
their physical infrastructure. And

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lastly, they're developing leading AI
models and exporting them to the world.

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But we are not here today to just
talk about what China is doing, but to

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identify how the US can lead. Given
how close the competition is across all

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foundational elements, the policies this

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Congress promotes could determine
the outcome. Global AI dominance is not

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about trying to level the playing field
by mimicking China's authoritarian way

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of government and AI adoption. Instead,
the United States must chart our own

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course, one that is anchored in American
values. This is vital to our long-term

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national security.
This requires decisive action by the

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United States across four main themes.

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Dominate, unleash, innovate, and

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promote. To dominate, we need to win
on data. The US government is one of the

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largest producers of data in the world,
but currently most of that data is

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unavailable to advance American AI
leadership. There are three immediate

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actions that would move us forward
towards data dominance. First, establish

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a national AI data reserve. This
resource should serve as a centralized

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hub for the government's AI work,
housing relevant government data and

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allowing it to be easily shared between
agencies and enabling widespread AI

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adoption. Second, make all government
data AI ready and stand up AI data

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infrastructure to enable scaled
implementation. And third, Congress

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should invest to position data dominance

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as a national priority. The next theme

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is unleash, meaning we must unleash AI

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technology and establish an agentic

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government. An agentic government is one

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that uses AI under human supervision to

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enhance its operations. For example,
federal agencies could leverage AI to

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streamline veteran healthcare paperwork,
improve improve fraud detection at the

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IRS, and boost efficiency
and information sharing across agencies.

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This will improve the lives of public
employees and the American people.

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Congress require each agency to set up
at least one flagship agent government

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program. Next, we must
maximize the ability of

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companies to innovate. I believe
the right regulatory framework is one that

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allows for innovation while still
creating proper guardrails. Congress

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should take three actions. First,
confirm a use casebased regulatory

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framework and conduct an analysis
to address regulatory gaps. Second,

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establish one single federal AI
governance standard to avoid patchwork

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legislation at the state level.
And third, implement policies that enable

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American workers to become the AI
workforce of the future. These policies

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would provide the skills necessary
to train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI

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systems. The final theme is promote,

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meaning we need need to promote US

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technology globally. Countries around
the world, what I call AI geopolitical

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swing states, will soon be forced to
choose between Western or CCP controlled

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technology. To help make sure they
choose western technology, Congress and

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the administration should empower NIST
to complete all relevant measurement

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science for AI and export it to the
world through the global network of AI

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safety institutes.
America led the industrial revolution,

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the space race, the internet a and the
internet age. AI is the next frontier

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and with your assistance, I'm confident
we will lead again. Thank you for the

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opportunity to be here today and I
look forward to your questions.