Trump to release AI action plan that leans into Silicon Valley's ideas
Trump launched a review process shortly after his inauguration in January that gave his tech advisors six months to come up with new AI policies after axing former president Joe Biden's AI guardrails.
A senior official told the Associated Press that the Act will include some familiar tech lobby pitches, like accelerating the sale of AI technology abroad and making it easier to build the data centres that fuel AI growth.
It might also include some ways to combat the "liberal bias" the Trump administration sees in OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Gemini.
David Sacks, a former PayPal executive and now Trump's top AI adviser, has been criticising 'woke AI' for more than a year, after Google rolled out an image generator that, when prompted to show one of the country's founding fathers, showed Black, Asian, and Native American men.
The tech industry has pushed for easier permitting rules to get their computing facilities connected to power, but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production that will contribute to global warming.
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