AI in Action | March 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help us solve the greatest challenges of our time from health care, agriculture, and education to transportation, energy, and national security.
When guided by ethics, transparency, and fairness, responsible AI can spark creativity and help usher in a more prosperous and sustainable future.
See how AI is improving our lives, growing our economy, and keeping us safe.
AI in Action
Supply-chain analytics company Altana is using AI to help businesses and governments manage their global supply chains and mitigate the uncertainty of international trade policy. In January, Altana launched its “tariff simulator” service that uses AI to help clients quantify and predict the financial impact of tariffs and find alternative global suppliers that might not be subject to tariffs. Altana leverages Meta’s Llama open source model for sophisticated tariff code classification, mapping shipment data to over 10,000 customs tariff categories based on product types and graph features from its global supply chain map. Altana’s AI-driven tools are being used across industries, including retail, apparel, automotive, and more, to increase flexibility and cost savings and overcome supply chain challenges.
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New York City is using Google AI to make the subway system safer and more reliable
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York is collaborating with Google Public Sector to address subway delays by integrating Google Pixel smartphones with AI capabilities to detect and track maintenance needs. Using Google’s proven TrackInspect prototype, Google Pixel smartphones are retrofitted onto subway cars and integrated with sensor hardware and advanced cloud and AI capabilities that can capture subtle vibrations and sound patterns, signaling the need for preventative maintenance. By proactively detecting potential track defects before they escalate into operational issues, this new AI-driven program not only makes rides smoother for customers but also makes track inspectors’ jobs safer by equipping them with more advanced tools.
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Lila Sciences is leveraging AI to revolutionize scientific discovery
By combining generative AI with a network of autonomous labs, where AI systems design, test, and refine scientific hypotheses in real time, Lila Sciences is developing a “scientific superintelligence” platform designed to overcome modern-day scientific limitations. For centuries, scientific progress has followed a methodical but inherently human-limited path: hypothesize, experiment, analyze, repeat. This approach has yielded remarkable discoveries, yet the vastness of potential chemical, biological, and physical interactions means that even our brightest minds can only explore a fraction of possibilities. Lila’s “scientific superintelligence” systems are advanced AI systems capable of not just processing existing scientific data but autonomously generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and extracting meaningful insights at scales impossible for human scientists. In its early stages, Lila has already generated novel antibodies to fight disease and developed catalysts for green hydrogen production and materials for carbon capture. Lila turned those experiments into physical results in its lab within months, a process that most likely would take years with conventional research.
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Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World
These AI Cameras Spot Wildfires Before They Spread
NASA’s New AI Satellites Could Revolutionize Disaster Response
AI Spotlight
In February, TechNet released a new white paper, “AI and the Workforce.” The report examines how AI can transform the workforce for the better and outlines a roadmap for policymakers and business leaders to integrate AI into the workplace responsibly. To mark the report’s release, TechNet partnered with Axios to bring together business and government leaders in Washington to discuss how AI adoption is impacting employees and the workplace. The event, “Employing AI at Work,” featured conversations with Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Erin Houchin (R-IN), Amazon’s Director of Robotics Manufacturing and Technical Operations Erika McClosky, Zoom’s Global Head of Public Policy and Government Relations Josh Kallmer, and Workday’s Head of U.S. Policy John Sampson. You can watch the event here.
About AI for America
AI for America is an initiative to educate the public about how AI is being used to improve lives, grow our economy, and keep us safe. The initiative combines coalition building, advocacy, social media, and traditional media to demonstrate the immense economic and societal benefits of AI. AI for America is funded by TechNet, the national, bipartisan network of innovation economy CEOs and senior executives. TechNet advances public policies at the federal and state level that make the United States the world leader in innovation. Its diverse membership includes dynamic American businesses ranging from startups to the most iconic companies on the planet. For more information, go to technet.org and AI4America.com.