Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the US tech editor at the Guardian. Today we’re discussing Donald Trump’s neediness for AI and the contradictions of Anthropic’s safety-first posture.
Don’t kid yourself, Trump is not going to regulate AI
Any prediction that Donald Trump will rein in the rapid development of artificial intelligence for safety reasons is laughable at this point.
He issued a watered-down executive order on model review last week and another demanding the US military accelerate AI adoption.
Rather than restrain growth, he’s discussing buying stock.
Trump said last week that his administration would “look into” taking financial stakes in the US’s leading artificial intelligence companies. Sam Altman has reportedly participated in discussions of such stock purchases with senior White House officials, indicating the discussions are somewhat serious.
In typical vague but confirmatory fashion, Trump told reporters on Friday: “There’s something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public. We’ll look into that.”
A US stake in AI companies could cut two ways. Trump could use the government’s leverage as a major shareholder to restrict AI development and align it with safety incentives more than financial ones.
Or he could encourage AI firms to grow as lucrative and large as possible so the federal government can cash out like a venture capital firm. My money is on the latter.
Should Trump push the growth approach, it does not seem likely he would press AI startups in the US to slow things down in the name of safety, whether in the form of constraining models’ capabilities or halting the construction of hyperscale datacenters. He’ll want his money’s worth.
Two of Trump’s executive orders issued last week likewise point to a continuation of his growth-at-all-costs approach. One executive order sought but did not mandate a government review of AI models 30 days before their releases.
He had postponed signing the order in late May, telling reporters: “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s gonna get in the way of that lead.” The previous version of the order reportedly would have enforced stricter standards: mandatory review, 90 days in advance.
Trump’s second executive order directed the defense department to accelerate AI adoption, particularly with regards to national cybersecurity. In it, he put into writing the now obvious core aspect of his stance on AI, asserting that the US leads in AI “because we refuse to stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation”.
Don’t expect his posture to change any time soon, and don’t look to him for a check on the headlong expansion of the US’s AI giants. The only check or balance we seem to have on that is Anthropic’s own conscience.
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