SCOUT· 54%34m·2026-06-04·News PoliticsHow Trump Was Persuaded to Regulate A.I.
President Trump has begrudgingly accepted that artificial intelligence requires oversight and on Tuesday signed an executive order asking companies to voluntarily give the government access to new models before they’re released to the public. Tripp Mickle, who covers Silicon Valley, discusses the battle in the White…
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“The real reason that they want to "'inspect" the AI models before they are released to the public, it to ensure that the models are politically and ideologically aligned with the institutions and entities that bankrolled trump in the first…”
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“??? He’s still not regulating. He signed an EO asking for voluntary cooperation, which I hope he doesn’t get; if there’s any institution the motives of which I trust less than the Tech Bros it’s this Administration.”
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