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Lisa Blunt Rochester Asks AI Expert About Policies Needed To Overcome AI Supply Chain Constraints
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5/12/2025
During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing last week, Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) questioned Dr. Lisa Su, the Chair & CEO of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., about artificial intelligence supply chain constraints.
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Thank you. Senator Blunt Rochester. Thank you Chairman Cruz and thank you so
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much to the witnesses. This is such an important hearing. Five minutes will not
00:09
suffice for me. I'll be submitting some questions for the record. I noticed that
00:14
for Mr. Altman and Mr. Smith when the question of paint me a picture of the
00:18
future came up there was you actually leaned up in your chair. There was a level
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of excitement and that's how I am about the future. When I came into the House
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of Representatives in 2017 I started a future of work bipartisan caucus because
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I had a concern that number one there were certain groups of people that were
00:39
going to be left behind but they're also as a country that we could be left behind
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and I started I had one an event where we had everyone walk into the room and use
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a word cloud and tell me what you think of when you hear the future of work. The
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biggest word coming in the door was fear. The biggest word walking out the door
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was opportunity and so to me this conversation is so vital to think about
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the opportunities but also making sure that we are watching out for ethics
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watching out for scams watching out for that technology does not take over the
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human and so I am just grateful for the conversation and Mr. Altman I listened to
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an interview about that you gave with Lester Holt maybe a year or so ago and you
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talked in that interview about how open AI it wasn't initially even about making a
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product it wasn't about the money and so I know you are incorporated in Delaware and
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I understand you've been working with our Attorney General during the previously
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proposed legislation to transition to a for-profit not legislation but to
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transition to for-profit and this Monday open AI decided to apply to become a
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public benefit corporation instead and to have the PBC govern your nonprofit arm.
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What went into this decision and what considerations influence the timing of the
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organizational change? So we never thank you for the question Senator the chance to
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explain this it's a complicated thing that I think has gotten misrepresented so this is a
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wonderful forum to talk about it. We never planned to have the nonprofit convert into
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anything the nonprofit was always going to be the nonprofit and we also planned for a
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PBC from the very beginning there were a bunch of other considerations about is it
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the PBC board that would control the nonprofit somehow or you know how our
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capital structure was going to work that there was a lot of speculation on most of
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it inaccurate in the press but our plan has always been to have a robust
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nonprofit we hope our nonprofit will be one of the best maybe someday the best
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resourced nonprofit in the world and a PBC with the same mission that would make
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make it possible for us to raise the capital needed to deliver these tools and
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services at the quality level and availability level that people want to use
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them at but still stick to our mission which we've been proud over the last
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almost decade of our progress towards. So we had a lot of productive
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conversations with a lot of stakeholders and a lot of lawyers and a lot of
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regulators about the best way to do this. It took longer than we thought it was
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going to you know I would have guessed that we would have been talking about
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this last year but now we have a proposal that people seem pretty excited about
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and we're trying to now advance. And Dr. Hsu, your company primarily operates in the
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physical hardware portion of the AI stack. I have a bill with Senators Cantwell and
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Blackburn called the Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act which authorizes the
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Department of Commerce to strengthen American supply chains for critical
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industries and emerging technologies. Dr. Hsu and others a semiconductor and
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chips manufacturing is critical to advancing the advancement of AI but we're
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facing these global supply chain constraints. What specific policies and I
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know you mentioned policies as well for a supply chains would we need to adopt to
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help American companies overcome the supply chain issues and compete in
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international with our rivals? Thank you Senator for the question. There's no
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question the semiconductor supply chain and overall supply chains are really
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critical for us to win the AI race. I think from a semiconductor standpoint the
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efforts that have been made to move manufacturing back to the United States
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have been positive. I think they are a start. There's a lot more that we can do
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and one of the most important aspects of it is really to think about it end to
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end. There's so many steps to go from beginning to end in a semiconductor
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supply chain including advanced wafers, including packaging, including the
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back ends and system tests. All of those avenues need to have a footprint in the
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United States and then we have many allies around the world which are you know
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very excellent partners as part of the global resiliency in the supply chain and we
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would like to see you know those partnerships continue to flourish.
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And last question if I can, Mr. Smith, how do you see the interdependence
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between the AI stack sections creating either vulnerabilities or opportunities in the AI supply
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chain? I think they create more opportunities than vulnerabilities because it enables companies to
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do what they do best and that we can work together and you know the world today has an integrated supply
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chain for anything that you buy. We just don't think about it when we go to the grocery store.
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I think one of the strengths of the tech sector is that we have I'll call it a string of pearls.
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Great companies in very in every layer of the stack and we're going to need frankly more great companies
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especially at the applications layer and that it is how we work together.
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Thank you so much. I am out of time but we will be following up with questions for the record
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as well as individually. Thank you and I yield back.
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thank you and
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thank you for joining me. Thank you. Mr. Moran.
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Mr. Moran.
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Mr. Moran.
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Maran.
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Mr. Moran.
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Mr. Moran.
06:30
Ms. Moran.
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