Trump Rejects EO on AI 

The draft Executive Order that Trump abruptly rejected last Thursday would have expanded federal power under the guise of pre-screening AI. Trump was right to cancel a blue-ribbon ceremony scheduled at the White House to sign this, which the heads of leading AI companies including Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg had found excuses not to attend.

The draft Executive Order has been leaked to the media, and it’s a Deep State doozy. Using AI slop like “Secure Frontier Model Deployment” and “covered frontier model,” the EO would have expanded federal power that is already far too great.

The EO would have prioritized prosecution for anyone who uses AI, empowering the federal police state which should be downsized instead. The EO would make the Department of War, which lacks any AI expertise, a Big Brother over all new AI breakthroughs by asking AI developers to submit to the Feds their innovations “for a period of up to 90 days before they plan to release such models to other trusted partners.”

“Other trusted partners”? The Deep State attempted, through the EO, to become the foremost trusted partner of AI developers, so that the federal government would receive all new AI developments in advance of everyone else.

This program would start as voluntary, but what begins........

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