President Trump inked three govt orders on synthetic intelligence Wednesday, together with one concentrating on so-called “woke AI” fashions.
“The American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in their AI models and neither do other countries. They don’t want it. They don’t want anything to do with it,” Trump mentioned in remarks from Washington, DC, forward of the signing ceremony.
The president’s order bars the federal authorities from procuring generative AI giant language fashions that don’t show “truthfulness and ideological neutrality.”
“From now on, the US government will deal only with AI that pursues truth, fairness, and strict impartiality,” Trump mentioned.
Massive language fashions [LLMs] which might be “truthful and prioritize historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity, and acknowledge uncertainty where reliable information is incomplete or contradictory” in addition to “neutral, nonpartisan tools that do not manipulate responses in favor of ideological dogmas like [diversity, equity and inclusion],” would meet the factors to be used by the federal authorities below Trump’s order.
The order instructed White Home Workplace of Administration and Finances Director Russ Vought, in session with different Trump administration officers, to situation steering for companies to implement these rules in AI procurement.
It additionally mandated that authorities contracts for LLMs embrace language to make sure compliance with Trump’s “Unbiased AI Principles.”
Final 12 months, Google’s Gemini AI mannequin sparked controversy when it began creating “diverse” artificially generated photos, together with ones of black Founding Fathers and multiracial Nazi-era German troopers.
The president additionally signed govt orders to facilitate the fast buildout of information middle infrastructure and to advertise the export of American AI expertise to US allies and companions throughout the globe.
The info middle order directs Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to launch a program that would supply loans, grants and tax incentives to qualifying infrastructure tasks.
It additionally revokes Biden-era DEI and local weather necessities for information middle tasks on federal lands, authorizes Cupboard officers to greenlight information middle building on federal lands and expedites allowing for such qualifying tasks.
Trump’s AI-export order directs the Commerce Division to determine a program to assist the event and deployment of “full-stack, end-to-end packages” abroad, together with “hardware, data systems, AI models, cybersecurity measures” which have purposes for the healthcare, training, agriculture, and transportation sectors.
Trump’s newest directives are a part of his effort to usher in a “Golden Age for American technological dominance” and goal to make the US a worldwide chief in synthetic intelligence, in line with the White Home.
