"The Manson family".
Posted on 07/23/2025 11:17:44 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The White House today released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan”, in accordance with President Trump’s January executive order on Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI. Winning the AI race will usher in a new golden age of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security for the American people.
The Plan identifies over 90 Federal policy actions across three pillars – 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.
Key policies in the AI Action Plan include:
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. 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. Enabling Innovation and Adoption: Removing onerous Federal regulations that hinder AI development and deployment, and seek private sector input on rules to remove. 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. “America’s AI Action Plan charts a decisive course to cement U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence. President Trump has prioritized AI as a cornerstone of American innovation, powering a new age of American leadership in science, technology, and global influence. This plan galvanizes Federal efforts to turbocharge our innovation capacity, build cutting-edge infrastructure, and lead globally, ensuring that American workers and families thrive in the AI era. We are moving with urgency to make this vision a reality,” said White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios.
“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.
“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.
If implemented seriously, it could ignite a massive capital and policy wave across sectors—semiconductors, cloud computing, power infrastructure, and workforce education.
Boom
We could start by stopping the importation of the third world.
I won’t take any of this seriously until we cancel H1-B and student visas along with blocking China and Russia from accessing our internet.
"The Manson family".
yes, please. all these executive actions about ‘stablecoin’, ‘bitcoin’ and ‘AI’ are all secondary to what most of his base cares about.
Better figure out how to turn it off when it gets out of hand. When, not if.
An EMP?
Ai seems like an excuse to import more h1b visa invaders from China and India .
Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive
That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?
impressive!
good to see businessmen running the country as a business compared to the decades of crooked pols & lawyers looting the country & lining the pockets of their friends, families & “commercial sponsors”
Welcome to the Golden Age of Trump
National security is addressed, but not safety.
AI policy needs to address safety concerns, not just economic and military interests.
AI is not as easy to contain as weapon-grade nuclear material. But it will be more dangerous.
The electric grid can’t support it. Not to mention the necessary increases in utility bills for people.
I’m calling it now. This is the beginning of the end of our Free Republic. Trump has become a gullible fool. He has allowed himself to swallow a bill of goods sold to him by those greedy few who want the power to rule the world as one body.
Call me a tin foil wearing Luddite, but HOW in the actual f#(% is AI going to improve “our” lives when AI will be using all the clean water and energy?
Has anyone actually thought this through or it just doesn’t matter?
This is insanity on mega steroids.
I share your concerns, but it’s coming whether we like it or not. Letting other countries lead—especially China or Russia, who have no problem weaponizing it—is a recipe for disaster.
The only way to protect our values, our economy, and our national security is to lead from the front. If we don’t shape the future of AI, we’ll be forced to live in someone else’s version of it.
Fair question—and you’re right to ask it.
But here’s the thing: nuclear power is far more expensive than it needs to be because of government red tape and a lack of economies of scale—too much customization, too little construction. If we streamline the process and start building small, modern reactors at scale (which is happening at data centers), electricity could get a lot cheaper.
AI could help with that—by speeding up permitting, improving safety, and making plants more efficient to run. And with cheap, reliable power, we can also produce more clean water through desalination, which is highly energy-intensive.
So yeah, AI does use energy and water—but it might also be the key to unlocking more of both. It’s not a pipe dream. It just depends on whether we lead or fall behind.
"Instead of democracy, we will have basically tech feudalism — fiefdoms run by tech corporations. They're pretty explicit about this point."
In a world increasingly ruled by tech companies, some of the industry’s most powerful figures appear to be quietly drafting blueprints for the near future. There's just one catch: it may or may not be a democratic one.
In an interview on "Decoder," a podcast by The Verge, tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power not rooted in the common good, but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the "Nerd Reich" — a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like Palantir founder Peter Thiel, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, and cryptocurrency titan Brian Armstrong, with some OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sprinkled in for good measure. Drawing on the reactionary writings of Curtis "Mencius Moldbug" Yarvin and the cryptolibertarianism of tech investor Balaji Srinivasan, this philosophy isn't explicitly outlined by our billionaire overlords, but is nonetheless a useful framework that explains their increasingly undemocratic actions.
Basically, as Duran tells it, we're quickly marching into the dictatorship erected by a handful of the richest tycoons in the history of humankind. At the core of the Nerd Reich is the insistence that liberal democracy, the governmental system characterized by rule of law, is set to collapse any minute now. When that happens, the billionaire cabal hopes to be ready.
Looks like a bunch of leftists are scared in that article that they will be losing power more than they are scared of AI in and of itself.
They already have the power... All they needed was the approval from government to unleash it. And... Here it is...
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