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For those of you interested in what’s happening in Washington DC with regards to AI and overall American policy for the future, these are important days. I have been trying to make sense of the Trump Administration’s rehaul of their AI Action Plan.
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About five days ago, the White House released a plan identifies over 90 Federal policy actions across three pillars – with stated emphasis Accelerating Innovation, Building American AI Infrastructure, and Leading in International Diplomacy and Security – that the Trump Administration will take in the coming weeks and months.
Does American have any Genius in AI left to keep its Empire alive?
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At President Donald Trump’s “Winning the AI Race” speech Wednesday, he proposed a rebrand: “I don’t like anything that’s artificial. So could we straighten that out, please? We should change that name. Because it’s not artificial. It’s genius.”
How about let’s not call it Artificial Intelligence, but Genius Intelligence? Would that make the POTUS satisfied? It’s an ambitions document and if you care about AI, you should be aware of it. Also realize that China is on a different AI path. But also some fairly odd things are going on, for instance, The Pentagon bought a $400 million equity stake in rare-earth miner MP Materials. Few realize it, but China also on Saturday released a global action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Meanwhile a lot of AI pundits in the U.S. are writing fairly optimistic takes on the AI action Plan.
How does the United States hope to Win the AI Race?
President Donald Trump announced his administration’s artificial intelligence action plan at the “Winning the AI Race” Summit this week (July 23rd, 2025). The White House released a statement along with a 28-page action plan to “turbocharge” AI development in the United States. All hail visionary Trump.
All-In Podcast:
Full disclosure: The All-In Podcast is a weekly American business and technology podcast hosted by four venture capitalists: Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg. Launched in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, it features the hosts, who are long-time friends and colleagues, discussing current events, market trends, political issues, and industry insights.
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Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
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Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
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Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller
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Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
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Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
Trump’s Winning on AI Speech July 23rd, 2025
The White House’s AI efforts are led by the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, who also serves as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
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Michael Kratsios, who also serves as the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). See his LinkedIn post.
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The twenty-eight-page document contains more than ninety policy recommendations that the administration believes will expand the global sale of U.S. AI technology, speed up the construction of data centers, and reduce “red tape” that has proved an obstacle for the AI industry. (also line the pockets of his friends with lucrative Government and National Defense contracts).
It’s a predictable but concerning document to say the least. This means an unbridled time for AI datacenters and BigTech capex as if it’s a “Manhattan project” for American AI. This isn’t a Space race, it’s bigger – according to those who cover it.
Meanwhile Alphabet earnings seems to support this thesis: Google has significantly increased its capital expenditure (CapEx) for data centers in 2025, specifically to $85 billion (for 2025), to support the growing demand for AI and cloud services. We’ll know a lot more this week as more BigTech companies have earnings and earnings’ calls. More significant spending in Capex is now the norm.
BigTech goes Dark Storm in AI Capex 🌪️
Donald Trump’s Administration says the U.S. should also win in everything including in Open-source models, and somehow catch up to China in an energy grid (just not with sustainable energy sources).
Trump makes a deal with the future of AI in Ambitious Action Plan
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Read the White House Brief on the event.
Additionally, the Special Advisor for Federated for AI and Crypto, David Sacks, plays a significant role in shaping AI policy, as noted in the executive order from January 23, 2025, which emphasizes removing barriers to AI innovation.
David Sacks is a first generation immigrant to the U.S. (from South Africa) who is a well-known Venture Capitalist with many ties to the financial elite of America who are benefitting the most from Trump’s 2nd term. Today he’s referred to in America as the “AI Czar”. His appointment has guaranteed that Peter Thiel funded companies have gotten a lot of funding in Trump’s second term like Palantir, Anduril, OpenAI and others.
Sacks was the COO and product leader of PayPal very much part of the “Paypal Mafia” that have somehow managed to get political power along with multiple ties within Trump’s Government related to Peter Thiel including the VP and others. Sam Altman’s company, OpenAI, of course also got funding from Founders Fund. So America Winning in AI, really means Trump and his friends, a Billionaire class and various related American Tech tycoons. Trump’s scheme of a Golden Dome Missile Defense System also relates to giving these companies even more lucrative contracts.
Sacks recently had an interview with CNBC on this document.
The Pentagon going all in AI isn’t necessarily about America Winning
What you have to understand is who is in power in the Trump Administration with regards to AI and whose interests do they historically serve. It’s not necessarily those of the American people.
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Trump’s AI Action Plan has a lot to do with containing China. Don’t mention that Meta’s Superintelligence Lab project to poach AI researchers from other labs like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Apple and others mostly consists of 1st generation Chinese AI Researchers (Chinese talent). Don’t mention either that Qwen and DeepSeek are ahead in Open-source AI models and their agentic capabilities.
“This AI Action Plan is actually a watershed moment. It elevates monopoly capitalism into Tycoon capitalism terribly that will be nearly impossible to reverse. “
Trump’s AI Action Plan also benefits U.S. Corporations
The plans include cutting back AI regulations, rapidly building data centers and semiconductor fabrication plants, and creating AI export packages in partnership with private companies and large Silicon Valley entities. Powerful people include the CEO of Nvidia and Trump taking his advice on some “AI policy” issues.
The Trump administration’s emphasis on building out more datacenters positions this as the only way to “usher in a new golden age of human flourishing.” In fact, it sounds a lot like Sam Altman, one of the favored sons of Peter Thiel. It also guarantees hundreds of Billions will be spent by the likes of OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and others that appear destined to boosting the stock market and growing out America’s own semiconductor capabilities, even as they rely on Taiwan’s TSMC more and more.
Americans love to warn each other about the threat of China and why winning at all costs should be the priority in AI. Meanwhile China has a pivotal lead in AI talent, growing AI efficiency in building LLMs, and Huawei presenting itself as a future potential threat to Nvidia’s hegemony in AI chips. Warnings from Jensen Huang all around whispering in Trump’s ear and flip-flops on China Nvidia sales, where Trump’s Admin insinuating that it was all just about trade leverage.
OpenAI is working with Softbank and Oracle, while Meta, xAI and others build unimaginably large AI datacenters that will boost demand on America’s power grid like nothing ever seen before without the energy-grid capabilities or advanced planning. Microsoft’s strategy revolves around not just building in the U.S. but datacenters in East Asia and Europe too. This will dramatically increase the AI bull market bubble on the stock market while make America’s ultra financial elite, unimaginably more powerful. This AI Action Plan is actually a watershed moment. It elevates monopoly capitalism into Tycoon capitalism terribly that will be nearly impossible to reverse.
This isn’t about what benefits human civilization, if you haven’t noticed. The White House called the plan Trump’s Visionary AI Action Plan with quotes of praise for the POTUS that felt like a PR announcement. The tone was just, OFF. Exaggerated, corporate, geared to make Billionaires even more powerful in America’s already highly centralized version of Neo-Capitalism.
Silicon Valley has completely taken over Washington and the AI Action Plan is evidence of just who stands to gain and benefit the most. It’s very dangerous, because much of the world will be left behind. The U.S. could leverage their wealth now in a fairly authoritarian way the instruments of AI. Even allies of the United States in 2025 are starting to realize this. This isn’t about doing what’s right for the world, it’s something else entirely.
The Mission
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Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation
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Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Free Speech and American Values
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Encourage Open-Source and Open-Weight AI
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Enable AI Adoption
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Empower American Workers in the Age of AI
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Support Next-Generation Manufacturing
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Invest in AI-Enabled Science
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Build World-Class Scientific Datasets
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Advance the Science of AI
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Invest in AI Interpretability, Control, and Robustness Breakthroughs
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Build an AI Evaluations Ecosystem
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Accelerate AI Adoption in Government
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Drive Adoption of AI within the Department of Defense
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Protect Commercial and Government AI Innovations
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Combat Synthetic Media in the Legal System
Praise the Genius of Trump. 🙏 More of this is coming:
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What will be the cost of higher energy do you suppose for ordinary citizens? Cost of real-estate? Water and dirty energy? No mention of that here. Cost for democracy, wealth inequality, trust in Government?
“We commend the Administration’s actions to unleash investment in AI, semiconductors, and the energy to power it.” – ARM (company, partially owned by Softbank)
This really is the U.S. saying it aims to control AI Supremacy for itself, over all of its rivals and to monetize it too. That’s great because that’s what OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta and Venture Capitalists want too. In fact that’s exactly what they hoped Trump would give them. Free reign to lead and monopolize global innovation. AI itself is becoming a form of U.S. exceptionalism from Government affairs to automated weapons.
In its first six months, the Trump administration has broadly encouraged efforts to accelerate the development and distribution of American AI technology including schemes to hurt, contain and diminish its rivals like China. What else might be in store for us? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said it would soon resume selling its H20 chips to China after a breakthrough with the Trump administration on regulations. Nvidia that company that’s suddenly worth an eye-watering $4.23 Trillion in market cap.
“In AI, you either own the frontier or get commoditized. The AI Action Plan helps ensure that America continues to build by streamlining regulation, identifying opportunities for AI to scale, and getting more energy online. It will help ensure America owns the future of AI while others still try to catch up to what we built yesterday.” – Lightspeed Venture Partners Founder Ravi Mhatre
The document and the praise, feels like it was written by Venture Capitalist for Venture Capitalist. Of course that what David Sacks and Peter Thiel (with so many people in this Administration) actually are beyond everything else. Trump mostly only wants others to “kiss the ring” but of course has no idea about anything AI personally. Takes on the AI Action Plan make America sound a lot more more competent than it actually is where the U.S. energy grid and over-emphasis on Generative AI over other emerging technologies is incredibly short-sighted. Letting corporations and VCs take the lead is not a legit innovation strategy. Nor is it one that will out-smart China.
You can see the fingerprints in the AI Action Plan of everyone from Eric Schmidt (VC former CEO of Google) to Alexander Wang (another 2nd generation Chinese) of Meta Superintelligence Lab. Neither do I consider terribly bright in keeping ahead of China. But where they have done well is helping the Venture Capital financial elite shape and control policy on AI, in Washington. This iteration of the AI Action Plan sounds similar to that that final report by the national security commision no artificial intelligence.
It’s profitable to be a China Hawk if you have ties to Venture Capital and Washington it turns out. It’s not hard to tell who these figures represent and it’s not the interests of American citizens. Washington in Trump’s Administration has been completely infiltrated by the VC class of the super-rich. What they decide in AI will have untold consequences for future generations. Let’s this to be a warning to America.
AI as a Manhatten Project
So here we are at a pivotal moment in the U.S.’s attempt to consolidate its AI Supremacy in 2025. As you might recall the Manhattan Project historically was a top-secret, U.S.-led research and development project during World War II aimed at creating the first atomic bombs.
This time its about U.S. hegemony over the rest of the world in artificial intelligence, a bit like ChatGPT. ChatGPT receives 2.5 billion prompts from global users every day, OpenAI told Axios. About 330 million of those are coming from users in the U.S. OpenAI usage is so global (in such a short time) it feels like a U.S. Surveillance capitalism project where corporations are in league with the U.S. national defense community.
Is this the U.S.’s play in a scenario where World War III might play out in the next few years? It this even the path American citizens voted for when they elected Trump to another term? Where Trump even plans to have a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund to boost the corporations that have done him favors even more? Meanwhile the s-called AI Czar David Sacks is making crypto very profitable for the U.S. financial elite. It all feels very premeditated to tell you the truth.
Venture Capitalists like David Sacks are indeed smiling: (they had just taken control of Washington in Tech policy).
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So what happens when hype, power and politics collide? Where the separation between the marketplace and the state is removed powered by AI incentives and shareholder capitalism? Would good things result for the world? For America? Stay tuned.
Pillar I: Accelerate AI Innovation
Key Focus Areas
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Remove Red Tape and Regulation:
Eliminate bureaucratic barriers that hinder private-sector innovation. Review and repeal federal and state regulations and rules that unnecessarily slow AI development, limit funding to states with restrictive AI regimes, and review past regulatory actions for burdens on innovation. -
Protect Free Speech and American Values:
Ensure AI systems, especially those procured by the government, prioritize free expression, objectivity, and avoid ideological bias. Update standards to remove references to topics like misinformation and DEI from key frameworks. -
Encourage Open-Source and Open-Weight AI:
Support the development and global adoption of American-led open models. Expand access for startups, academics, and small businesses; develop infrastructure like the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) and enable financial markets for AI compute. -
Enable AI Adoption:
Launch regulatory sandboxes, Centers of Excellence, and sector-specific efforts (healthcare, energy, agriculture) to accelerate responsible experimentation and adoption. Increase coordination between defense, intelligence, and energy agencies for national security use-cases. -
Empower American Workers:
Prioritize AI education and upskilling through federal programs, apprenticeships, and tax incentives for AI literacy. Establish an AI Workforce Research Hub and fund rapid retraining for displaced workers. -
Support Next-Generation Manufacturing:
Invest in robotics, autonomous systems, and advanced manufacturing through targeted grants, partnerships, and supply chain initiatives. -
Invest in AI-Enabled Science:
Fund automated laboratories and focused research organizations to use AI for groundbreaking science. Incentivize data sharing and open access to scientific datasets. -
Advance AI Interpretability, Control, and Robustness:
Launch technology development programs and hackathons to improve AI transparency, predictability, and resilience, particularly for defense and security applications. -
Build an AI Evaluations Ecosystem:
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Accelerate AI Adoption in Government:
Create a unified council for federal agency AI adoption, talent exchange programs, procurement toolkits, and interagency knowledge sharing. -
Drive AI in Department of Defense:
Develop workforce talent, AI proving grounds, and automation of core workflows. Set up emergency access protocols for military computing resources. -
Protect Innovations and Combat Synthetic Media:
Collaborate across agencies and with the private sector for cyber protection and countering threats like deepfakes, including new forensic standards and legal guidelines.
Pillar II: Build American AI Infrastructure
Key Focus Areas
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Streamlined Permitting for Data Centers & Manufacturing:
Reform environmental permitting to accelerate construction of data centers and semiconductor facilities. Expand use of federal lands for critical infrastructure and enforce security guardrails against foreign technology. -
Develop a Grid for AI Innovation:
Upgrade and stabilize the national power grid, optimize current resources, integrate new sources, and ensure resource adequacy for data-intensive AI workloads and future growth. -
Revitalize Semiconductor Manufacturing:
Focus on domestic production through streamlined regulations, return-on-investment requirements for taxpayer-funded projects, and integration of advanced AI tools in chip fabrication. -
Build High-Security Data Centers:
Set technical standards for data centers handling sensitive intelligence and military uses. Advance classified compute environments for secure AI workloads. -
Train a Skilled AI Workforce:
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Bolster Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity:
Establish an AI Information Sharing and Analysis Center, enhance vulnerability disclosure and remediation, and promote AI-driven defensive tools to protect critical services. -
Promote Secure-By-Design AI & Incident Response Capacity:
Refine assurance standards for national security AI applications and integrate AI into government incident response doctrine and playbooks.
Pillar III: Lead in International AI Diplomacy and Security
Key Focus Areas
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Export American AI to Allies:
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Counter Adversarial Influence:
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National Security & Biosecurity:
Ensure the U.S. government leads in evaluating security risks posed by frontier AI models, invest in biosecurity, and implement global risk mitigation strategies.
Cross-Cutting Principles
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Worker-Centric:
AI development and deployment are to be structured to ensure American workers benefit through new job opportunities and upskilling, not displacement. -
Objectivity and Free Speech:
American AI systems must remain free from ideological bias and serve as objective, trustworthy resources. -
Security and Vigilance:
Advance technologies must be protected from theft and misuse domestically and internationally, with robust monitoring for emerging risks.
Does this sound like a plan OpenAI, Anthropic, Thinking Machines, Google, Meta and xAI can get behind?
Trump on AI: “Whatever it takes” to lead the world
Trump’s second term is consolidating the American financial elite in handling the “AI narrative” to for their direct financial gain and increase in generational political power, investments, and a period unbridled benefits for the companies that they are tied to. Mario Gabrielle of The Generalist has done a series on Founders Fund making Peter Thiel sound like a genius. As genius as Donald Trump? Peter Thiel’s ties to the Trump Administration are very concerning. Silicon Valley engulfing Washington and the rise of fascism of AI authoritarianism of a transhumanistic manifesto now feels preordained. If you live in a blue state it should unsettle you to the core. It’s not just about winning against China.
The framework is not your ordinary AI policy plan. It’s a dangerous thing for the rest of the world and not just environmentally or for inflation but geopolitical, for global security and as a deterrent to war, automation, inequality, poverty and the dissolution of human rights and freedoms.
Key policies in the AI Action Plan include:
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Exporting American AI: The Commerce and State Departments will partner with industry to deliver secure, full-stack AI export packages – including hardware, models, software, applications, and standards – to America’s friends and allies around the world.
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Promoting Rapid Buildout of Data Centers: Expediting and modernizing permits for data centers and semiconductor fabs, as well as creating new national initiatives to increase high-demand occupations like electricians and HVAC technicians.
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Enabling Innovation and Adoption: Removing onerous Federal regulations that hinder AI development and deployment, and seek private sector input on rules to remove.
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Upholding Free Speech in Frontier Models: Updating Federal procurement guidelines to ensure that the government only contracts with frontier large language model developers who ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias.
The scheme also seems bent on a goal is to convince the American public that spending billions of taxpayer dollars on building data centers is in their best interest. The nefarious self-interests of the Venture Capital community are bold, and ready to create an enemy of China. Did I mention that we have to win at all costs?
Build, Baby, Build!
Trump is all about drill baby drill and for AI datacenters, build baby build. The AI Action Plan is authored by the Trump administration’s team of technology and AI specialists, many of whom come from Silicon Valley companies. Most of whom do not represent the public good but Silicon Valley corporate and VC interests. This isn’t a democratic document or action plan that will reasonably or responsibly spend American tax money. Nor is it a reality that will be good for the world.
As reported by TechCrunch, the scheme isn’t without opposition – some are already pushing back on Trump’s AI Action plan for allegedly putting corporate interests ahead of the public. On Tuesday, a group of more than 90 organizations, including labor, environmental justice, and consumer protection nonprofits, published an open letter called the People’s AI Action Plan.
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Not a likely scenario when U.S. politics and the White House are now owned by the financial elite.
What will a world of AI datacenter proliferation lead to for America and for human civilization? Has anybody considered the risks?
Trump’s AI Action Plan benefits the increased centralization of Silicon Valley under the control of fewer actors in an almost radical way.
Power Above All Else!
Electric power and American corporate greed are in the spotlight, and the Trump Administration thinks it’s a great time. The era of the “deal” for the future of America at the cusp of the Machine Economy, a time where everything from work, to money to opportunity is flipped on its head. It starts innocent enough.
Cutting red tape around data centers
Trump’s call for deregulation extends to how the administration hopes to accelerate the buildout of AI-related infrastructure, like data centers, semiconductor fabs, and power sources. All of which I will be covering in this Newsletter more moving forwards.
These are dark times where a financial elite controls America’s destiny. A time of debt, deficits, dystopia and civil unrest. AI an opportunity for a minority and a bar to the majority. Be careful what you wish for.
Pillar III around America’s AI global influence is particularly nefarious, considering this administration has just implemented 15% baseline tariffs on the rest of the world. Even allied countries are suffering.
The environmental damage alone by this mandate is will be incredible. BigTech will have to invest in power and it may contribute to GDP growth. But it will be a period of great consolidation, M&A and centralization of corporate power, shareholder value and accelerating wealth inequality in late-stage American capitalism. Which will have severe consequences on stability, rule of law, mass surveillance and the deterioration of human rights. Of course not everyone will see it that way in 2025.
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And corporate executives trying to make automation of jobs and layoffs sounds like a positive development. The White House called the AI bro orientated framework a “groundbreaking blueprint”. This will include a mandate to combat “woke” AI. I don’t personally know a chatbot as sycophancy native and overly manipulative as ChatGPT. Do you? I don’t’ want Sam Altman in a box. Please – not that.
Trump Ushers in his Golden Era
The U.S. will do “whatever it takes” to lead the world in artificial intelligence, President Trump said at an AI summit in Washington Wednesday after rolling out his administration’s AI action plan. For other countries and smaller countries, “whatever it takes” means being bullied by trade tariffs and being pressured to be against China. Does whatever it takes include genocide in Gaza and bombing Iran? What will they even do to the Chinese? What does exporting American AI consist of it not killing machines in box too? When you open up the pandora’s box of next-gen AI, what might actually happen? Does a 79 year old in a goofy suit even know? Does he even care? It’s not clear.
“From this day forward it’ll be a policy of the United States to do whatever it takes to lead the world in artificial intelligence.” Donald Trump
We don’t need the U.S. to do whatever it takes, we want them to do what’s right. Maintaining global order and global rule of law is not their strong point. And we find ourselves on the praecipe of a new world, a brave and dangerous one. This is going in the wrong direction.
Under the Trump Administration AI agents are being developed for war scenarios. Drone companies are getting more funding and AI is being developed for war. That too is “whatever it takes” for America to maintain its hegemony. Not just corporate power, but influence, diplomatic leverage, global dominance.
Suddenly, the name of my Newsletter, AI Supremacy, finally makes sense. AI is everywhere in the media today, but it’s about power (and not just the electrical kind).
BigTech on Steroids
Most of the 23-page Action Plan gives a green light to the tech industry (according to Axios), focusing on “accelerating AI innovation” rather than addressing concerns such as model safety, environmental risks and the potential for wealth concentration and job loss. And a bunch of other risks I’m following and many people are concerned about.
At least we know what to expect. No uncertainty in no uncertain terms. But how does the U.S. even think it can do or accomplish all of these things? Trump is going “all-in” on AI and being loyal to his friends in the process (if you know what I mean). Admirable. Extremely problematic. And totally corrupt.
The framework also sounds suspiciously like China’s own 5-year plans in innovation. Major corporations collaborating together working together with the Government also sounds very much like how China operates. What could possibly go wrong? In the heart of the Bull market boom related to Generative AI, the choices the U.S. are making in a unilateral fashion under the Trump Administration will have ripple effects for the rest of humanity for decades to come. And not all of them will be good.
Further Reading
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China releases AI action plan days after the U.S. as global tech race heats up
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Under Trump, Uncle Sam is becoming an active investor at a scale not seen outside war or major crises
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Five Interesting Things about the White House AI Action Plan
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Trump derides copyright and state rules in AI Action Plan launch
“Artificial intelligence is a revolutionary technology with the potential to transform the global economy and alter the balance of power in the world. To remain the leading economic and military power, the United States must win the AI race. Recognizing this, President Trump directed us to produce this Action Plan. To win the AI race, the U.S. must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships. At the same time, we must center American workers and avoid Orwellian uses of AI. This Action Plan provides a roadmap for doing that,” said “AI and Crypto Czar” David Sacks.
The United States plans to make a lot of money with AI, global deals, corporate partnerships, national defense, global conflict and taking out China as a competitor. An era where making a deal with Trump consists of 15% tariffs on everything as we have seen with Europe.
America Must Win
The refrain of the Summer of 2025 in Washington? “We must win”.
“Winning the AI Race is non-negotiable. America must continue to be the dominant force in artificial intelligence to promote prosperity and protect our economic and national security. President Trump recognized this at the beginning of his administration and took decisive action by commissioning this AI Action Plan. These clear-cut policy goals set expectations for the Federal Government to ensure America sets the technological gold standard worldwide, and that the world continues to run on American technology,” said Secretary of State and Acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio.”
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No mention of copyright in the AI Action Plan for what I could tell. President Donald Trump criticized both copyright enforcement efforts and state-level AI regulations while rolling out the plan, noted Politico.
Three Executive Orders on AI related
Trump also signed three executive orders (EOs on AI). One will fast track federal permitting, streamline reviews and “do everything possible to expedite construction of all major AI infrastructure projects,” Trump said. Another expands American exports of AI hardware and software. A third order bans the federal government from procuring AI technology “that has been infused with partisan bias or ideological agendas,” as Trump put it.
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Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government. Part of this means removing all environmental protections in the roll-out of datacenters.
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Trump decried “woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models”, before signing the orders on stage at the Mellon Auditorium.
What do you make of all of this?
The U.S. AI Action Plan is a watershed moment in the battle for AI Supremacy.
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