# Professor Robert Seamans discusses the Trump administration's plans to fund AI research and development

1 Faculty News May 10, 2018 ![Associated Press logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031530.jpg?itok=uSjLQY9n)>

Excerpt from the [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/9e55595fa67644c7807333eb59dba564) -- "'It’s been a huge missed opportunity up until this point,' said [Robert Seamans](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans), a White House economist during the Obama administration who now teaches at the NYU Stern School of Business."

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