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https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IRL-lede-Lav-Varshney.jpg24001600Lav Varshney is an associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and served as a White House Fellow from 2022-2023. He describes the day-to-day experience of working at the White House, gaps in the innovation system that science policy can help fill, and how making artificial intelligence systems more transparent could define the future of AI applications.