What Does Trump's New Term Mean for the Future of A.I.?
Simran Sinha
SaaS Expert | Driving Growth at CaseFox ??| Marketing Lead at MatterSuite ??
ChatGPT was off duty when Donald Trump was in power. Now that Trump has won against Kamala Harris in the 2024 elections, he is willing to assume the presidency of the United States of America and the world of artificial intelligence.
AI systems are evolving at such an exponential rate and some of the AI companies like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO? and well-known Trump supporter, Contemplate that AI will surpass humans by 2026. Others provide a more general estimate. In an essay he wrote in September, Sam Atiam, the CEO of OpenAI, stated that maybe in a few thousand days we will possess superintelligence, but also pointed out that it might take longer. As for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he does not consider the emergence of these systems as a sudden event but as an extensive period.
The Future of Biden’s AI Executive Order and Related Agency Actions
Here is the fact sheet of the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Executive Order that President Biden announced in October 2023. This is because the executive order is expected to bring new safety and security standards for utilizing AI, encourage the emergence of privacy-preserving technologies during AI training and assessment activities, and also address stated and some forms of algorithmic discrimination.
President Biden's executive order to explain one of the most troubling situations for the American people is that powerful AI system developers share safety testing results and other relevant facts with the US. In this sense, companies were obligated in 2022 to report to the Commerce Department that they conducted a red team about their untended model training and retained large-scale computing resources for the purpose.?
Moreover, the Commerce Department also put out a draft notice in September 2024 for the imposition of by-laws on the disclosure of the reports on the information biannually.???
A Delicate Balance in Policy-Making
Other than revoking the Biden AI Executive Order, there were no specific policies on AI that President Trump painted during the campaign. With Elon Musk part of the President’s team—an individual who has before expressed support for some form of AI risk regulation
In general, it is suggested that the new Trump administration will not take unduly cautious approaches to regulation, as was previously referenced in previous Trump policies regarding AI.
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For example, in 2019, the first Trump Administration issued Executive Order 13859 on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, which stated. The United States government's strategic plan is to ensure and grow America’s innovation, scientific, technological, and economic position in AI.
American policies on enhanced technologies remain on the list of national security importance. One expects the so-called Digital Cold War, a recent surge in worldwide competition, primarily between the US and China, in AI development to continue and the federal government to build policies to achieve the goal of ensuring America remains the AI technology innovator.
America-First AI Strategy and the Competition with China
This implies that Trump’s previous comments indicate that continuing to be at the top of the pack in the development of AI will be an emphasis in Trump’s administration. We have to be at the forefront, as he said in the Impaulsive podcast in June. People were quite open in their saving of the expected outcome. We have to take the lead over China. Trump also painted environmental effects as challenges that could slow the US down in what Trump perceives as a race to China.
Trump's AI policy could include eliminating restraints to help foster faster infrastructure growth, according to Dean Ball, a research fellow at George Mason University. The package includes the data centers that are going to have to be built The energy requirement to support those data centers will be enormous.?
He says, and no doubt, I think even bigger than that chip production. This is why, in the present state, it looks as if we are going to need many more chips. Trump’s campaign has at some point in time attacked the CHIPS Act later on, offering incentives to the chip-making firms that are located in the U.S. Trump critics have observed that the only thing that Trump seems not to want is the act to be eliminated.
But as the release of ChatGPT clearly showed in late 2022, it is never easy to look to the future with technology, never mind AI. That much is certain. The next four years will bring some surprises in AI, and steering this miraculous technology will require a supple and well-calibrated package of federal policies.
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I agree with the article’s point on the unpredictability of AI’s future. As we navigate this rapidly evolving landscape, it is clear that maintaining a balance between innovation and regulation will be key. The US is at a critical juncture in its AI policy, especially given global competition. There’s always a risk that pushing for speed in policy development might outpace the ethical frameworks necessary to ensure AI benefits everyone. For the legal sector, this could mean drafting policies that not only encourage innovation but also protect against biases and ensure access to justice.