President Trump’s newly signed executive order focuses on solidifying American dominance in artificial intelligence. This episode explores the administration’s plans to accelerate AI development, lift restrictions from the Biden era, and expedite energy infrastructure for data centers. The implications for the tech industry and national security, from regulatory shifts to controversial energy policies, are discussed.
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Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition all the daily AI news You need in around 5 minutes today is One of those days where we basically Have two main episodes crammed together As one later on in the main episode I'll Be talking about open ai's operator but For the headlines we are talking about a Set of trump policies starting off with A new executive order on artificial Intelligence going back a few days on Monday the Biden AI executive order was One of the many rescinded by the Incoming Administration to be fair the Substantive parts of that 2023 order had Largely played out mostly to do with Government Department's filing reports The major ongoing policy was a mandatory Testing and disclosure regime conducted Through the AI safety Institute with Major Labs potentially continuing with This on a voluntary basis anthropic CEO Dario alade even commented earlier in The week that the repeal was quote not a Big deal the big question then was what Would take its place we didn't have to Wait very long to find out with Trump Outlining his AI agenda on Thursday aiar David saak explained the order to the President in the Oval Office stating We're announcing the administration's Policy to make America the world capital And AR icial intelligence and dominate And lead the world in AI overall the new
Executive order is primarily A vibe Shift towards AI acceleration with just A little touch of the culture War for Good measure it says the United States Has long been at the Forefront of AI Innovation driven by the strength of our Free markets world-class research Institutions and entrepreneurial Spirit To maintain this leadership we must Develop AI systems that are free from Ideological bias or engineered social Agendas that of course is the culture War parties you can see from media who Picked up on the free from ideological Bias piece still overall the order sets The new overarching policy direction for The US quote to sustain and enhance America's Global AI dominance in order To promote human flourishing economic Competitiveness and National Security Substantively the order directs the Heads of various White House advisers to Submit an action plan to achieve this Policy within 180 days and so in this Way while the substance of it might be Different and while the action plan that They're looking for might be different The function of the EO isn't all that Dissimilar to what Biden put out in that It's really more of a first step towards Getting the various White House bodies In alignment around around a set of new Policies saaks is of course playing a Leading role in this process alongside
The adviser for Science and Technology And the adviser for National Security Input is also required from the advisers For domestic policy in the Office of Management and budget the order also Directs Sachs to survey all agencies for Any action taken as a result of the Biden executive order he is required to Determine whether they are quote Inconsistent with or present obstacles To the new policy directive within 60 Days the agencies are required to Halt Any initiatives deemed to be a problem And that's just about it a brief onepage Document compared to the sprawling 111 Page Biden EO I think most people's Sense reviewing this is that the Trump Administration knows that it wants to Accelerate AI development but isn't sure Yet what steps it needs to take to do That the EO is basically a planting of The flag that says an important first Step is removing the Biden guard rails As minimal as they were as the companion Fact sheet claimed the Biden AI Executive order established Unnecessarily burdensome requirements For companies developing and deploying AI that would stifle private sector Innovation and threaten American Technological leadership again appearing On Fox news saak said that the core Point was to make the US the global Leader in AI unsurprisingly there are
Plenty of folks who are concerned about What will come next alandre Nelson the Former acting director of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under Biden noted that agencies Would be tasked with reviewing Initiatives quote that are already Helping people with an implicit intent To unwind them she continued in 60 days We'll know which Americans rights and Safety the Trump Administration believes Deserves to be protected in the age of AI and if there will be a Level Playing Field for every technologist developer And innovator or just the tech Billionaires still on the flip side when It comes to Industry and the Accelerationists the attitude might be Summed up by Bas Beth Jos who writes Unfathomable levels of EAC Victory now maybe a more substantive Policy which came through a virtual Appearance at Davos was President Trump Announcing plans to accelerate energy Policy for AI data centers he said and I Am clipping editing and paraphrasing Because this is President Trump we're Talking about here we're going to give Rapid approvals to build electric Generating plants in the United States We need double the energy we currently Have in the US for AI to really be as Big as we want it I'm going to give Emergency declarations so they can start
Building them almost immediately the National Energy emergency was declared On day one of the presidency and Directed government departments to use Any tools they have at their disposal to Expedite construction the new part of The policy is that the Administration Has removed any climate targets that Were binding the AI industry for Trump This seems to mean turning back to Coal Power he said there are some companies In the US that have coal sitting right By the plant so that if there's an Emergency they can go back to that now Of course this doesn't necessarily mean Big tech companies are all of a sudden Going to start building a ton of coal Plants their climate goals are as much About internal pressure from employees And leadership as well as public Perception as they are about government Policy instead what many anticipate is The construction of gas powered turbines Which can be built quickly and Relatively cheaply as well as the red Tape around nuclear facilities being Slashed in order to ensure that new Projects don't get stuck in the Regulatory Quagmire we've seen over the Past few years the other pillar of the Policy is ensuring new data centers are Able to build exclusive on- premise Power stations power utilities have Lobbied against collocation in the past
Warning it could lead to supply Shortages more realistically however Collocation tends to just cut out these Middlemen and reduces the need to wait For new infrastructure to be built the Optimistic take is that with the average Weight time for connection to the grid Ballooning out to multiple years this Policy change could speed up the Deployment of new data center Significantly lastly an update on Project Stargate the participants are Claiming that they have the money Despite what Elon Musk says Tuesday's Announcement of the $500 billion project Stargate shook up the AI industry Implying an infrastructure build out Even more significant than the Manhattan Project not everyone was convinced with Elon Musk saying that they didn't Actually have the money according to the Information though they do actually have The money or at least enough to get Started their report said that SoftBank And open AI have each committed $9 Billion to the joint venture although It's not exactly clear where openai is Getting its $19 billion and that Oracle And Abu Dhabi backed fund mgx are Kicking in a further $7 billion a piece Still a few pennies short of the $100 Million price tag for the first year of The project but they're probably good For it at least that's what president
Trump thinks when asked about elon's Claims Trump said I don't know they're Putting up the money the government Isn't they're very rich people I hope They do and then he pointed out that Elon just hates one of those people and He understands cuz he hates people too So there you have it in the meantime More details are emerging about the Scope of the project a source speaking With the financial times said that Stargate wouldn't rent out its compute Commenting the intent is not to become a Data center provider for the world it's For open aai another source said that Details are still being worked out Stating they haven't figured out the Structure they haven't figured out the Financing they don't have the money Committed and yet the First Data Center Is under construction in abene Texas Sam Alman posted a video of the sprawling Site commenting big beautiful buildings With that though we will conclude the Headlines next up the main episode