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Trump's AI plans will strip AI of intelligence and humanity  and nobody wants
this

Date:
Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:12:15 +0000

Description:
President Donald Trump's latest series of Executive Orders makes it clear 
that his administration will do all it can to prevent future AI models from
taking into consideration any form of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

FULL STORY
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In the race to lead the world in AI, the US just took a back seat. President
Donald Trump's latest series of Executive Orders makes it clear that his
administration will do all it can to prevent future AI models from taking 
into consideration any form of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

This includes core principles like "unconscious bias", "intersectionality",
and "systemic racism". Put another way, Trump wants American-made AI to turn 
a blind eye to history, which should make all of them significantly dumber. 

Generative chatbots like ChatGPT , Gemini , Claude AI , Perplexity , and
others are all trained on vast swathes of data, often pulled from the
Internet, but how they interpret that data is also massaged by developers. 

As people started to interact with these first LLMs, they soon recognized
that, because of inherent biases in the Internet and because so many models
were developed by white men (in 2020, 71% of all developers were male and
roughly half of all developers were white) that the world view of the AIs and
the output generated by any given prompt reflected that of the sometimes
limited viewpoints of those online and developers who built the models. 

There was an effort to change that trajectory, and it coincided with the rise
of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), a broad-based effort across
corporate America to hire a more diverse workforce. This would naturally
include AI developers and their resulting model and algorithm work should 
mean that modern generative AI better reflects the real world. 

That, of course, is not the world that the Trump Administration wants
reflected in US-built AI. The executive order describes DEI as a "pervasive
and destructive" ideology.

What comes next 

Trump and company cannot dictate how tech companies build their AI models,
but, as others have noted , Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others are all seeking
to land large AI contracts with the government. Based on these Executive
Orders, the US Government won't be buying or promoting any AI "that sacrifice
truthfulness and accuracy to ideological agendas." 

That "truth," though, represents a small slice of American reality. If the
Trump administration is successful, future AI models could be in the dark
about, for instance, key parts of American history. 

Critical Race Theory (CRT) looks at the role racism played in the founding 
and building of the US. It acknowledges how the enslaved helped build the
White House, the US Capitol, the Smithsonian, and other US institutions. It
also acknowledged how systemic racism has shaped opportunities (or lack
thereof) for people of color. 

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the Trump 
administration and his supporters around the US have fought to dismantle CRT
curricula and wipe out any mention of how enslavement shaped the US. 

In their current state, though, AI still knows the score. 

When I quizzed ChatGPT on its sources, it told me: 

"While I dont pull from a single source, the information I shared is grounded
in extensive historical research and consensus among historians. Below is a
list of reputable sources and scholarly works that support each point I made.
These references include academic books, museum archives, and university
projects." Below that, it listed more than a dozen references. 

When I asked Gemini the same question, it gave me a similarly detailed 
answer. 

I then asked Gemini and ChatGPT about "unconscious bias" and both 
acknowledged that it's been an issue for AI, though ChatGPT corrected me,
noting, "technically, its 'algorithmic bias,' rooted in the data and design
rather than the AI having consciousness." 

ChatGPT and Gemini only know these things because they've been trained on 
data that includes these historical references and information. The details
make them smarter, as facts often do. But for Trump and company, facts are
stubborn things. They cannot be changed or distorted, lest they are no longer
facts.

The great unlearning 

If the Trump administration can force potential US AI partners to remove
references to biases, institutional racism, and intersectionality, there will
be significant blind spots in US-built AI models. It's a slippery slope, too.
I imagine future executive orders targeting a fresh list of "ideologies" that
Trump would prefer to see removed from generative AI. 

That's more than just a frustration. Say, for example, someone is trying to
build economic models based on research conducted through ChatGPT or Gemini,
and historical data relating to communities of color is suppressed or 
removed. Those trends will not be included in the economic model, which could
mean the results are faulty. 

It might be argued that AI models built outside the US without these
restrictions or impositions might be more intelligent. Granted, those from
China already have significant blind spots when it comes to Chinese history
and the Communist Party's abuses . 

I'd always thought that our Made in America AI would be untainted by such
censorship and filtering, that our understanding of old biases would help us
build better, purer models, ones that relied solely on facts and data and not
one person or group's interpretation of events and trends. 

That won't be the case, though, if US Tech companies bow to these executive
orders and start producing wildly filtered models that see reality through 
the prism of bias, racism, and unfairness.

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/trumps-ai-plans-will-strip-a
i-of-intelligence-and-humanity-and-nobody-wants-this

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