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This was the first speech that President Trump has given on AI since the AI boom
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began. And he declared that the United States was in an AI race. It's a global competition. The language that he used
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was reminiscent of how President John F. Kennedy declared that America was in a space race. And in a similar way,
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President Trump declared that we had to win the AI race. I think you can argue that the AI race is more important than
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the space race. It's going to reshape the global economy. It's going to determine who the superpowers are of the
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21st century. And President Trump was really clear that we had to win it. And then he laid out what some of those key
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pillars are. Number one was innovation. We have to get the red tape out of the way and let our geniuses cook. Number
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two is infrastructure. He touted the hundreds of billions of dollars of investments in energy and power
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generation and grid upgrades and data centers that he's supporting. And then he also supported AI exports. He said
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that we have to make America's tech stack the global standard. He said that it's not only important that we win, he
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said it's important how we win. And he sort of mentioned three non-negotiables here. Number one was that American
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workers have to be at the center of the prosperity that we create. Number two is
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that the AI models that the government procures and buys must be free of ideological bias. So no woke AI. The
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third thing is he he did say that we do want to prevent our technologies from being misused or stolen by malicious
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actors. And look, it's it's a daunting technology because it's so powerful. And like any revolutionary technology like
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that, it can be used for bad as well as good. But the daunting nature of it is all the more reason why we have to do it
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in the United States. Why would the United States has to be the pioneer? I think this idea of an AI race that is
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similar to the space race is going to be the dominant frame on AI policy for years to