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CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Breitbart News last week that President Donald Trump’s administration is considering creating a national laboratory akin to the Manhattan Project to help develop and steer the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

“When you talk about AI, one of the things I want to explore is whether we can expand and establish a national laboratory for the development of AI to help the U.S. government leverage emerging technology to make sure American leadership is that,” Ratcliffe told Breitbart News in his first interview as CIA director last week. He was confirmed last week by the U.S. Senate into the position and spoke exclusively with Breitbart News about how he intends to, as directed by Trump, remove politics from the world’s most preeminent intelligence service and restore it to its critical functions of intelligence-gathering and preparing the U.S. government with the best possible information. Ratcliffe also told Breitbart News that he would be pushing to formally determine if COVID leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, something he has since done as director of the CIA.