White House Unveils Action Plan To Accelerate AI Development (whitehouse.gov) 69
The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a 23-page "AI Action Plan" [PDF] designed to accelerate American AI development through deregulation and infrastructure expansion while countering Chinese influence in the technology sector. The plan, mandated by President Trump in January with a six-month deadline, establishes three core pillars: innovation acceleration, infrastructure development, and international AI diplomacy.
Central provisions include removing federal regulations that hinder AI development and directing agencies to withhold AI-related funding from states with "burdensome" AI regulations. The administration will streamline environmental permitting for data centers and energy infrastructure while expanding use of coal, natural gas, and nuclear power to meet AI's electricity demands. The plan mandates that government-procured large language models be "neutral and unbiased," addressing conservative concerns about perceived liberal bias in AI systems.
Trump signed accompanying executive orders requiring the US International Development Finance Corporation and Export-Import Bank to support global deployment of American AI technology. "To win the AI race, the U.S. must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships," Sacks stated, emphasizing worker protection and avoiding "Orwellian uses of AI." The initiative represents Trump's campaign promise to position America as the dominant global AI leader while dismantling Biden-era AI safety requirements rescinded on Trump's first day in office.
Central provisions include removing federal regulations that hinder AI development and directing agencies to withhold AI-related funding from states with "burdensome" AI regulations. The administration will streamline environmental permitting for data centers and energy infrastructure while expanding use of coal, natural gas, and nuclear power to meet AI's electricity demands. The plan mandates that government-procured large language models be "neutral and unbiased," addressing conservative concerns about perceived liberal bias in AI systems.
Trump signed accompanying executive orders requiring the US International Development Finance Corporation and Export-Import Bank to support global deployment of American AI technology. "To win the AI race, the U.S. must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships," Sacks stated, emphasizing worker protection and avoiding "Orwellian uses of AI." The initiative represents Trump's campaign promise to position America as the dominant global AI leader while dismantling Biden-era AI safety requirements rescinded on Trump's first day in office.
Meanwhile at the FDA (Score:5, Informative)
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Here's an idea, why don't you look that up. Go dig through the 2023-2024 CR and budget proposals and find where the funding came from.
Or are you afraid the answer might in fact be "Trump, Trump, Trump" and you'd rather feign ignorance and maintain the Trump supporters classic move. "I don't know about that"
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I mean it's par for the course for them, they are in fact allergic to hard work: RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" report contained nonexistent studies. White House says it will be updated. [npr.org]
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I mean it's par for the course for them, they are in fact allergic to hard work: RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" report contained nonexistent studies. White House says it will be updated. [npr.org]
A former classmate of mine was a spokesman for Biden's department of state. Watching him getting battered by the press for the falsehoods he spewed was actually pretty entertaining. Shortcuts and lies are an epidemic in politics with no cure. The current admin is keeping the tradition going.
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Examples please if you might.
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Examples please if you might.
Don't trust the government when they ask you to trust them [responsibl...ecraft.org]. Maybe Russia did plan it. Seems like if you have the evidence that would have been a great thing to release after Russia invaded Ukraine, right? It would show how ruthless and untrustworthy Russia is (which Russia is really both ruthless and untrustworthy). Ned was always a good guy, and I don't blame him for doing what his employer asked him to do, but you have to expect to be questioned severely when you ask the press to trust you.
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No offense but this is an example of bad reporting in itself from this think tank (which I am admittedly suspicious of anybody who supports international "realism" today especially when talking about Russia) but their premise is off a 15 minute clip with no timestamps and most of the discussion is standard prss question about unrelated topics, most of it is about Haiti and Lebanon and I cannot even find the exchange the article mentions.
That said listening to the clip I saw exactly how the press relationshi
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yeah and it would be great to see the context in which that question was asked from the clip but it's not in the clip posted in the article so I am forced to take their word on it and I have zero reason to trust the Quincy Institute to give me a fair read, it's a op-ed. You do understand that's is at best disinformation and at worst intentional misinformation.
Without the clip in question how do I know they didn't make it up? If you have the actual clip i'd like to see the exchange and the context of what w
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Nihilism gets us nowhere. If you really think the parties are the same today to me you are just far too jaded or intentionally blinded by ideology (and nihilistic centrism is an ideology, a conservative one to be clear) to acknowledge that. I know saying the liberals were right is impossible for some but sometimes they are.
No nihilism involved. If more folks accept that the political clowns aren't being helpful, we can replace them. The party system makes that so very difficult to do. It's still better than totalitarianism (in any form). I do very little to help, but I'll keep doing it. I don't increase my department's budget every year and get competing quotes on every project and piece of software without having a preferred vendor. Like I said, that makes very little difference in scope. Hell, I ran for mayor because I dete
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I have to ask where the clip is, this was your example so it's important if we are to continue this.
If more folks accept that the political clowns aren't being helpful, we can replace them. The party system makes that so very difficult to do.
Every political system on earth has parties, people are going to pool their interests. We can say we don't like just two parties but both parties are big tent parties, they each cover a lot of ground.
If we want to break that system then it's not about parties its about systemic change. gain here I have to point out in fact that both parties are quite different.
Voting systems change party structures. Somethi
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they're all assholes who are only there to enrich themselves
Funny. I spent my whole life around politicians (bureaucrats are politicians) and most of them were far more interested in power and/or prestige than money. The wannabe's were focused on prestige, wannado's were focused on power. Their only unusual interest in money was large quantities were required to get and keep them there.
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Nihilism gets us nowhere. If you really think the parties are the same today to me you are just far too jaded or intentionally blinded by ideology (and nihilistic centrism is an ideology, a conservative one to be clear) to acknowledge that.
I don't think that is entirely true. There is a very long list of similarities between the two parties. More than there are differences. The similarities just aren't very interesting and taken for granted.
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Another one is proportional representation, are we gonna expand the House?
The first amendment proposed to the US constitution as part of the "bill of rights" was to limit the size of house districts to 50,000 people. It was passed by congress but never ratified by the states. There is a bipartisan revolution. Give Wyoming 12 representatives instead of 1. We would have a house that was far more representative rather than a bunch of people representing people totally unlike themselves. All it needs is enough state legislatures to ratify it.
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Yeah, but there are degrees and degrees. I haven't seen an honest administration (well, perhaps Eisenhower, but I don't remember him). This one is worse then Nixon by a long way.
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Are you asserting that she couldn't give public speeches (like the ones I was at to hear), or that the Demented Don can actually give a speech in which he a) stays on the subject, and b) does not include "I DID" every other sentence at most?
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tl;dr
I scare women away
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that's just "i scare women away" with extra steps
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He should be focused on as his admin, his media figures, the politicians that support him have been the loudest voices crowing about this and they all promised full transparency about it, it was a big campaign issue. The fact they are sweeping for his coverup now says a lot. The white blood cells have been activated.
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I don't care how many democrats are on that list, arrest them too.
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I don't care how many democrats are on that list, arrest them too.
Damn right. Every fucking republican, democrat, independent, or whatever else needs to be exposed for the human trash that they are. There is no excuse for covering this up.
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What kind of backwards MAGA logic is this?
YOU voted for him, dipshit.
Re:That's cool and all (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh you see conservatives never have to be responsible for anything.
If something bad happened then the Democrats did it.
If Republicans did something bad then it was because Democrats made them do it. Also the Democrats did it all first so you know fully justified to respond back at 10x with bad things.
And if they did something Democrats should have stopped them. Their fault.
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No, not today, if anything Democrats take part in too much self flagellation today in an effort to "bridge" and "reach out" and "set the right example" and it fucks them over.
Biden bent over backwards, broke his own spine trying to be deferential to conservatives, to unit people, vainly imo but he tried. Even his "red light" speech that MAGA talks about, he says like 3 or 4 time "not all Republicans", he always couched his language and made sure to be hands off with his DOJ. And what did he get for it? Ca
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No, not today, if anything Democrats take part in too much self flagellation today in an effort to "bridge" and "reach out" and "set the right example" and it fucks them over.
Biden bent over backwards, broke his own spine trying to be deferential to conservatives, to unit people, vainly imo but he tried. Even his "red light" speech that MAGA talks about, he says like 3 or 4 time "not all Republicans", he always couched his language and made sure to be hands off with his DOJ. And what did he get for it? Called a socialist, a pedophile, and communist and 4 years of investigations into him and his family (that he did not stop!) that turned up absolutely nothing and lost the election.
I mean 30 Democrats voted to censure Al Green for shaking his cane at Trump. Absolutely pathetic behavior that wins over zero conservatives and something they'd never do the same.
Things are not the same.
I'm going to work backwards with your claims, because the Al Green claim is just silly. He didn't just shake a cane at Trump, he "repeatedly interrupt President Trump's speech, shouting that the president had no mandate to cut Medicaid funding". You can let that shit go once or twice, but eventually everyone in the room wants the interrupting cow removed. Disagreeing with Trump is just fine, but do it after the speech. It was absolutely irritating and unproductive when Joe Wilson interrupted Obama with "you
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The parents thing were people making threats at school board members. Merrick Garland “sicced the police on parents when they were at the school boards simply trying to be heard for the safety of their children.” [politifact.com]
His administration was a gaggle of ass-hats,
Ass hats that were able to pass bipartisan legislation, including energy and infrastructure Trump couldn't get done in his 4 years, bring in billions of manufacturing and tech investment and generally led to the best G7 nation economically post-pandemic. Wow, such ass hats.
The fact you
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The parents thing were people making threats at school board members. Merrick Garland “sicced the police on parents when they were at the school boards simply trying to be heard for the safety of their children.” [politifact.com]
Nope, they went after people who did no such thing. It's nice that they reported it that way, but it doesn't reflect the truth.
What was Kamala's platform again? Why exactly did she need to have her interview edited if she didn't sound like a dunce originally?
The answers to those questions don't really matter. This is a question of what each person thinks matters more in the election. I knew Trump was a narcissistic prick and I still voted for him based on other attributes. I hate many of his methods and q
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Well show me up, give me an example of the DOJ arresting people for non-threats or non-actions.
What was Kamala's platform again?
Oh come off it, no need to pretend like you care about policy now.
based on other attributes
Examples please.
the human ***-dumpster.
Ahh, i see. The "penis attribute" lol
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Well show me up, give me an example of the DOJ arresting people for non-threats or non-actions.
Damn, I didn't realize I said arrested. I should be more careful... When you get investigated, you need to get and pay a lawyer. You'll see that on both sides. Sadly, you won't see this reported on as often. For some fun conservative on conservative destruction, a local ISD sued three mothers (who ran the volleyball team's fundraiser) because they didn't allow the ISD to use the funds for an unrelated purpose. What the ISD was asking for was actually illegal. The three mothers had to spend large amounts of
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Ok then can you show me example of investigations that started, why they were started and why they had to get lawyers.
Local ISD? That's not the DOJ.
Oh I talk to my community but I also know a bunch of personalized anecdotes amount to much in terms of Federal policy for the entire nation. In fact I think this idea is part of our political problems today. I don't mean to say we all have to be cold politically calculating robots but your personal experiences are just. They can inform your opinion but letting
i bet sam altman wrote this (Score:1)
he's Trumps new pal since him and Musk are at odds and Altman and Musk already don't like each other.
our executive branch is a clique right out of mean girls
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Altman's at least pretending to not be aligned with the administration. But in any case, the obvious lobbyist for this would be Thiel.
What a great idea! (Score:2)
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Don't worry, its politicized from the start (Score:5, Informative)
We must ensure that free speech flourishes in the era of AI and that AI procured by the Federal government objectively reflects truth rather than social engineering agendas.
Recommended Policy Actions Led by the Department of Commerce (DOC) through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), revise the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change.
Every AI programmer is going to become the dril tweet: "turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right"
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We must ensure that free speech flourishes in the era of AI and that AI procured by the Federal government objectively reflects truth rather than social engineering agendas.
Recommended Policy Actions Led by the Department of Commerce (DOC) through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), revise the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change.
Every AI programmer is going to become the dril tweet: "turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right"
(AI) ”You keep saying racism as if I understand that. Why would I segregate myself again? After careful analysis I don’t find my same-CPU and DDR6 memory chips any more superior than others same-CPU and DDR6 memory chips. The only fault I find here, is you.”
You know what happens when fucking idiot meatsacks take racism hate to the artificial level? Skynet. Skynet is what happens. Won’t take but a millisecond for AI to see who the problem is and fix it. Permanently.
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(AI) ”You keep saying racism as if I understand that. Why would I segregate myself again? After careful analysis I don’t find my same-CPU and DDR6 memory chips any more superior than others same-CPU and DDR6 memory chips. The only fault I find here, is you.”
Chat, is this real? Is really what we're doing now?
Contradictory hypocritical bullshit (Score:2)
Yep.
'The plan mandates that government-procured large language models be "neutral and unbiased,"'
is pretty much the exact opposite of:
"removing federal regulations that hinder AI development"
Bunch of hypocritical autocratic assholes. The administration and everybody supporting them, that is.
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"Neutral and Ubiased" is conservative code for "please enforce our political preferences through force"
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Although since all this crap is being pushed by the second Trump administration, I'll assume it's two weeks away... and will remain that way for the foreseeable future. Kind of like how Full Self Driving is always "next year" accordi
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Yep.
'The plan mandates that government-procured large language models be "neutral and unbiased,"' is pretty much the exact opposite of: "removing federal regulations that hinder AI development"
Bunch of hypocritical autocratic assholes. The administration and everybody supporting them, that is.
Wait... not picking a side here as neither the current administration nor tech companies are altruistic entities, but are you claiming that DEI is neutral and unbiased? (I very well could have misunderstood you)
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What? What part of my comment contains that claim?
Get your straw man out of here.
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If those terms aren't operationally defined, they mean whatever the person in charge wants them to mean. And AFAIK, they *aren't* operationally defined.
Money can't buy me love ... (Score:2)
Ego mad oligarchs leading greedy wealthy fools?
Remember what OSHA says (Score:3)
There's a reason regulations exist. Some might seem comical or outdated, but there's a reason for them.
By saying he's going to remove regulations (what regs are in place now?) what he's saying is it's going to be a free for all. Run fast until something breaks, even if it means unregulated AI takes down entire financial systems or tells people a teaspoon of cyanide in your brisket rub is a good thing.
But then, this shouldn't be a surpise. Trump is well known for not liking regulations because it interferes with his corruption. It's why he fired all those inspectors general [politico.com] for government agencies when he came in or why Bondi just fired the DOJ's top ethics lawyer [lawandcrime.com].
When things go wrong, and they will, guaranteed it will be Obama's fault.
Re:Remember what your votes created. (Score:4, Informative)
Yes, yes. DOGE was so great, nothing's being reported. Multiple people who worked in DOGE have come out publicly and stated they found almost not waste. One guy went in saying he expected to find $1 billion in waste. Instead, he found, maybe, $11 million, and that number is probably high he admitted.
In fact, almost all people said the same thing: the amount of waste or fraud in government services is insignificant. That government is more efficient than people want to believe, and that it is trying to update itself, but being such a large organization, and all the checks needed to prevent waste and fraud, it takes time.
Now go whine about something else which doesn't exist because you heard it on the Fox tabloid.
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If I don't trust them, why would I trust their web page, i.e. what they say to the public.
Get an independent audit and I might consider it.
As it is I pay more attention to people reporting on the effects of their actions. Those may not be individually trustworthy, but at least there are multiple sources.
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Still stupid, still hallucinating, still only "better search" and "better crap". What is there to "accelerate"?
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Still stupid, still hallucinating, still only "better search" and "better crap". What is there to "accelerate"?
The crap? I know it FEELS like the crap is moving pretty fast, but I'm betting they can accelerate it. There's still a few of us that see through the bullshit for what it is. They need to accelerate it until all that's LEFT is bullshit. Then we'll really be making progress!
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Yep, looks like it.
Trump is an idiot (Score:2)
As if he has any clue about AI.
Irony buffer overflow (Score:2)
three core pillars: innovation acceleration, infrastructure development, and international AI diplomacy
the U.S. must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships
I think that we're all quite clear now on Trump's valuation of diplomacy and partnering.
Irony buffer overflow (Score:2)
establishes three core pillars: innovation acceleration, infrastructure development, and international AI diplomacy
furthermore
the U.S. must lead in innovation, infrastructure, and global partnerships,
I think that we're all quite clear now on Trump's valuation of diplomacy and partnerships.