WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump unveiled an aggressive, low-regulation strategy on Wednesday to boost big tech\u2019s race to stay ahead of China on artificial intelligence and cement US dominance in the fast-expanding field.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s 25-page \u201cAmerica\u2019s AI Action Plan\u201d outlines three aims: accelerating innovation, building infrastructure, and leading internationally on AI.<\/p>\n
The administration frames AI advancement as critical to maintaining economic and military supremacy. Environmental consequences are sidelined in the planning document.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica is the country that started the AI race, and as president of the United States, I\u2019m here today to declare that America is going to win it,\u201d Trump told an AI event in Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning this competition will be a test of our capacities unlike anything since the dawn of the space age,\u201d he said, before signing several executive orders to give components of the strategy additional legal weight.<\/p>\n
In its collection of more than 90 government proposals, Trump\u2019s plan calls for sweeping deregulation, with the administration promising to \u201cremove red tape and onerous regulation\u201d that could hinder private sector AI development.<\/p>\n
In his wide-ranging speech, Trump insisted that \u201cwinning the AI race will demand a new spirit of patriotism and national loyalty in Silicon Valley and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump complained that for too long \u201cmany of our largest tech companies have reaped the blessings of American freedom while building their factories in China, hiring workers in India and slashing profits in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plan also asked federal agencies to find ways to legally stop US states from implementing their own AI regulations and threatened to rescind federal aid to states that did so.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to have a single federal standard, not 50 different states, regulating this industry of the future,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
The American Civil Liberties Union warned this would thwart \u201cinitiatives to uphold civil rights and shield communities from biased AI systems in areas like employment, education, health care, and policing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Trump action plan also calls for AI systems to be \u201cfree from ideological bias\u201d and designed to pursue objective truth rather than what the administration calls \u201csocial engineering agendas,\u201d such as diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n
This criterion would apply to AI companies wanting to do business with the US government.<\/p>\n
Trump also called for AI development to be broadly immune from copyright claims \u2014 currently the subject of legal battles \u2014 saying it was a \u201ccommon sense\u201d approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you\u2019ve read or studied, you\u2019re supposed to pay for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A major focus in the plan involves building AI infrastructure, including streamlined permitting for data centers and energy facilities that would overlook environmental concerns to build as swiftly as possible.<\/p>\n
The administration, which rejects international science showing a growing climate crisis, proposes creating new environmental review exemptions for data center construction and expanding access to federal lands for AI infrastructure development.<\/p>\n
Trump also called for the swift construction of coal and nuclear plants to help provide the energy needed to power the data centers.<\/p>\n
The strategy also calls for efforts to \u201ccounter Chinese influence in international governance bodies\u201d and strengthen export controls on advanced AI computing technology.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the strategy calls on the government to champion US technology in conquering overseas markets, a priority that was spelled out in an executive order.<\/p>\n
These plans will help \u201censure America sets the technological gold standard worldwide, and that the world continues to run on American technology,\u201d US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Critics of the plan said the policies were a gift to US tech giants that were scaling back their goals for zero carbon emissions in order to meet the acute computing needs for AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrump\u2019s plan reads like a twisted Gilded Age playbook that rewards the rich while punishing everyday Americans and the environment,\u201d said Jean Su of the Center for Biological Diversity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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