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Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Free Speech and American Values Encourage Open-Source and Open-Weight AI Enable AI Adoption Empower American Workers in the Age of AI Support Next-Generation Manufacturing Invest in AI-Enabled Science Build World-Class Scientific Datasets Advance the Science of AI 9 Invest in AI Interpretability, Control, and Robustness Breakthroughs Build an AI Evaluations Ecosystem Accelerate AI Adoption in Government Drive Adoption of AI within the Department of Defense Protect Commercial and Government AI Innovations Combat Synthetic Media in the Legal System

I can’t take this seriously, as recent actions by this administration directly contradicts a few of these stated goals.

Or maybe I don’t want to, because this sounds dangerous to me at this time.

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Don't regulate it except to push political goals sure seems like a recipe for success.

This reads like "Cultural Learnings of AI for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Amerika".

For real, this shamelessness in the language is extremely reminiscent of the USSR.

>Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation

What red tape? Anyone can buy/rent a GPU(s) and train stuff.

> What red tape? Anyone can buy/rent a GPU(s) and train stuff.

Well previously the Chinese were not able to, but that was changed recently:

* https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wins-ok-to-resume-sales-of-a...

* https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/22/nvidia-chip-deal-us-chi...

I am sure someone is winning from this. But it aint the American public.

NVIDIA shareholders

> Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Free Speech

Yet at the same time,

> Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government [...] LLMs shall be neutral, nonpartisan tools that do not manipulate responses in favor of ideological dogmas such as DEI. [...] DEI includes the suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs; incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex. [1]

I don't understand how free speech can be protected while suppressing topics such as "unconscious bias" and "discrimination".

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/prev...

The answer is obvious: it never has been about free speech. Just replace "free speech" with "hate speech" in all of these missives [1][2][3].

[1]: https://theconversation.com/how-do-you-stop-an-ai-model-turn...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...

Exactly. You said it.

Anyone serious knows contradiction = lies.

Words are cheap, actions matter.

most of these are vibe signaling, like Communist Party of China has been doing in past year, except this won't work as effective here as in China, not even close, because the US is not authoritarian enough to mobilize every level of the govt and the economy by just empty propaganda slogans.

>this won't work as effective here as in China, not even close, because the US is not authoritarian enough to mobilize every level of the govt and the economy by just empty propaganda slogans.

Have you been under a rock for the last 6 months as Trump tells Xi Jinping to hold his beer??

Comparing Trump to Xi Jinping is an unfunny joke. Americans have lost the plot on what true authoritarianism really looks like.

America has no chance vs China in the AI race precisely because the President of the CCP has far more power in his country than the President of the US. Its not even close.

I'm not a fan of the growing "The US needs to become more autocratic before the bad guys get us" narrative that AI proselytizers keep sharing.

Okay, so you have not been paying attention to current events. The US is now a full fascist autocracy. Nothing trump does while in office can be prosecuted. There are masked police in the streets arresting anyone they want. There simply are no more consequences for breaking the law and ignoring the courts. You may not think the US is authoritarian on the level of China, but it's catching up very quickly.

For comparison, could you identify the other countries that you consider to be full fascist autocracies? Something more western than China or North Korea.

Since when did power mean innovation?

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