Arati Prabhakar speaks to Nature about innovation, science’s role in political decision-making and taking the reins after scandal.
and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , who last week granted some of the first interviews to media since she was confirmed in early October. An applied physicist, Prabhakar previously led both the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology , and she has a long history working in Silicon Valley.
Last year, when I got the call from the White House, I was at a point where I had gotten to spend half of my professional life in public service and half in Silicon Valley. Those experiences had given me different vantage points on the complex and really rich innovation system that we have. The role of science and technology and innovation has always been to blow open new pathways that just weren’t visible before, and make new ways to meet our aspirations.
I grew up in the semiconductor field. It’s been really clear since [the mid-1980s] that the American semiconductor industry was globalizing, and then got dangerously concentrated in one part of the world. And for literally decades, I’ve watched us not do anything about that, to the detriment of our national security and our economic competitiveness. And then this amazing thing happened last summer: the CHIPS and Science bill passed.
US society is sharply divided, politically-speaking. Do you worry about science itself becoming a victim of political polarization?
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