US President Donald Trump’s new roadmap for artificial intelligence promises speed, strength, and supremacy. It’s framed as a bold attempt to ensure national dominance in a critical technology space. But beneath the confident rhetoric lies a deeper unease ~ about whose interests this acceleration truly serves, and what might be lost in the rush. At the heart of the plan is a familiar equation: strip down regulatory friction, scale up infrastructure, and unleash innovation. It echoes a frontier mentality ~ where rules are obstacles, oversight is ideological, and global leadership justifies domestic shortcuts.

The plan’s language makes clear that “bias” must be purged not just from datasets, but from the policy environment itself. What that means in practice, however, is far from settled. AI is not a neutral force. It absorbs values from training data, reflects the priorities of those who build it, and amplifies the systems into which it is deployed. That is why........

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