President Donald Trump took decisive action to ward off paralyzing leftist control of the future of artificial intelligence. Studies by the Media Research Center have repeatedly shown that AI chatbots consistently show leftist bias.
Trump announced an AI Action Plan at a Wednesday summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, signing three executive orders to, among other things, fight woke AI, expand AI infrastructure and promote American AI systems globally.
“In just a moment, I will be signing an order banning the federal government from procuring AI technology that has been infused with partisan bias or ideological agendas such as critical race theory, which is ridiculous,” Trump said towards the end of this speech. “And from now on, the U.S. government will deal only with AI that pursues truth, fairness, and strict impartiality. We're not going to go through the craziness that we've gone through for the last four years.”
Trump’s executive order, “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” prohibits the government from contracting with AI companies that infuse their chatbots with woke beliefs. It cited the instance of a chatbot defending transgenderism and Google Gemini’s infamous refusal to generate images of white people, while complying with requests to generate images of other races.
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But Trump went further, speaking out against another threat that could leave American AI dependent on left-wing sources and unable to compete with foreign AI models that have access to a far wider diversity of sources for training data. AI companies like OpenAI have already begun to sign anticompetitive “exclusivity contracts” with biased left-wing publishers such as The Associated Press (AP), giving these publishers a privileged position in responses to user prompts.
Echoing comments made by White House AI czar David Sacks on the June 28 edition of the All-In Podcast, Trump denounced the idea of forcing AI companies to contract with all the book publishers, websites, and other sources of information that they train their AI chatbots on.
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“But what we really need to be successful is a very simple phrase called common sense, and that begins with a common sense application of artificial and intellectual property rules. It is so important. You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you have read or studied, you are supposed to pay for: ‘Gee, I read a book, I’m supposed to pay somebody,’” Trump said. He went on to explain that American AI could never compete with China if we weren’t playing by the same “set of rules” on data training.
Trump didn’t stop at staving off a future of AI parroting Vox and the AP and freezing out new media. The president also addressed threats from foreign and state governments, declaring that AI must be governed by a “single federal standard.” He made clear that his administration would not let a radical state or coalition of states hamper or ideologically poison AI chatbots for the whole nation.
“If you are operating under 50 different sets of state laws, the most restrictive state of all will be the one that rules, so you could have a state run by a crazy governor,” Trump noted. He followed by noting California’s now-defunct enactment of a standard that would phase out gas cars, a standard that over a dozen states have agreed to follow.
Trump also promised to defend American AI companies against regulation by countries in Europe and Asia as well, stating that the “toughest country” could wreck AI for everyone just as the “toughest state” could.
On foreign threats, the president made clear that his administration would fight to make American AI dominant. “We will not allow any foreign nation to beat us. Will not live on a planet controlled by the algorithms, the adversary's advancing values and interests contrary to our own,” Trump said.
MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider tied together Trump’s key points: “It’s not just foreign algorithms. We don’t want a foreign adversary algorithm or a domestic adversary algorithm controlling us either. Thank God for Donald Trump prohibiting them from discriminating against us,” Schneider said.
Before he finished, Trump emphasized the vast difference between his approach toward free, unbiased and dominant American AI and former President Joe Biden’s:
“The reason the last administration was so eager to regulate and restrict AI was so they could limit this technology to just a few large companies, allowing them to centralize it, censor it, control it, weaponize it. And they would weaponize it, they're very dishonest group of people. You probably saw that because we caught them in the act. We really caught them. We had it before, but now we really have them. We have it where it counts. But this is the exact opposite of my approach.”
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