From tech podcasts to policy: Trump’s new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas

By MATT O BRIEN and ALI SWENSON Associated Press An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U S approach as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his electoral process campaign Trump on Wednesday is planning to reveal an AI Action Plan he ordered after returning to the White House in January He gave his tech advisers six months to come up with new AI policies after revoking President Joe Biden s signature AI guardrails on his first day in office The unveiling is co-hosted by the bipartisan Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In Podcast a business and apparatus show hosted by four tech investors and entrepreneurs who include Trump s AI czar David Sacks The plan and related executive orders are expected to include chosen familiar tech lobby pitches That includes accelerating the sale of AI innovation abroad and making it easier to construct the energy-hungry facts center buildings that are needed to form and run AI products according to a person briefed on Wednesday s event who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity It might also include various of the AI values war preoccupations of the circle of venture capitalists who endorsed Trump last year Blocking woke AI from tech contractors Countering the liberal bias they see in AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google s Gemini has long been a rallying point for the tech industry s loudest Trump backers Related Articles House ending session early as Republicans clash over Epstein vote Trump s Labor Department proposes more than rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces Congress running out of time to head off Colorado s spike in health-insurance costs Banishing a reporter Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story Budget office says Trump s tax law will add trillion to deficits leave million uninsured Sacks a former PayPal executive and now Trump s top AI adviser has been criticizing woke AI for more than a year fueled by Google s February rollout of an AI image generator that when demanded to show an American Founding Father created pictures of Black Asian and Native American men The AI s incapable of giving you accurate answers because it s been so programmed with diversity and inclusion Sacks commented at the time Google hurriedly fixed its tool but the Black George Washington moment remained a parable for the trouble of AI s perceived political bias taken up by X owner Elon Musk venture capitalist Marc Andreessen Vice President JD Vance and Republican lawmakers The administration s latest push against woke AI comes a week after the Pentagon reported new million contracts with four leading AI companies including Google to address critical national guard challenges Also receiving one of the contracts was Musk s xAI which has been pitched as an alternative to woke AI companies The company has faced its own challenges Earlier this month xAI had to scramble to remove posts made by its Grok chatbot that made antisemitic comments and praised Adolf Hitler Streamlining AI details center permits Trump has paired AI s need for huge amounts of electricity with his own push to tap into U S power sources including gas coal and nuclear Everything we aspire to and hope for means the demand and supply of ability in America has to go up revealed Michael Kratsios the director of the White House s Office of Science and Tool Approach in a video posted Tuesday Multiple tech giants are already well on their way toward building new content centers in the U S and around the world OpenAI revealed this week that it has switched on the first phase of a massive statistics center complex in Abilene Texas part of an Oracle-backed project known as Stargate that Trump promoted earlier this year Amazon Microsoft Meta and xAI also have major projects underway The tech industry has pushed for easier permitting rules to get their computing facilities connected to power but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production that will contribute to global warming United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the world s major tech firms to power evidence centers totally with renewables by A typical AI content center eats up as much electricity as homes Guterres declared By records centers could consume as much electricity as all of Japan does in current times A new approach to AI exports It s long been White House framework under Republican and Democratic administrations to curtail certain mechanism exports to China and other adversaries on national protection grounds But much of the tech industry argued that Biden went too far at the end of his term in trying to restrict the exports of specialized AI computer chips to more than other countries including close allies Part of the Biden administration s motivation was to stop China from acquiring coveted AI chips in third-party locations such as Southeast Asia or the Middle East but critics announced the measures would end up encouraging more countries to turn to China s fast-growing AI industry instead of the U S as their innovation supplier It remains to be seen how the Trump administration aims to accelerate the export of U S -made AI technologies while countering China s AI ambitions California chipmakers Nvidia and AMD both reported last week that they won approval from the Trump administration to sell to China a few of their advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence AMD CEO Lisa Su is among the guests planning to attend Trump s event Wednesday Who benefits from Trump s AI action plan There are sharp debates on how to regulate AI even among the influential venture capitalists who have been debating it on their favorite medium the podcast While specific Trump backers particularly Andreessen have advocated an accelerationist approach that aims to speed up AI advancement with minimal regulation Sacks has described himself as taking a middle road of techno-realism Device is going to happen Trying to stop it is like ordering the tides to stop If we don t do it somebody else will Sacks mentioned on the All-In podcast On Tuesday groups including labor unions parent groups environmental justice organizations and privacy advocates signed a resolution opposing Trump s embrace of industry-driven AI approach and calling for a People s AI Action Plan that would deliver first and foremost for the American people Amba Kak co-executive director of the AI Now Institute which helped lead the effort revealed the coalition expects Trump s plan to come straight from Big Tech s mouth Every time we say What about our jobs our air water our children they re going to say But what about China she mentioned in a call with reporters Tuesday She disclosed Americans should reject the White House s argument that the industry is overregulated and fight to preserve baseline protections for the masses as AI apparatus advances Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim in Washington contributed to this review