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Re:US AI Action Plan by Mobius01 on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:43PM (#44661210)
Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Free Speech and American Values Encourage Open-Source and Open-Weight AI Enable AI Adoption Empower American Workers in the Age of AI Support Next-Generation Manufacturing Invest in AI-Enabled Science Build World-Class Scientific Datasets Advance the Science of AI 9 Invest in AI Interpretability, Control, and Robustness Breakthroughs Build an AI Evaluations Ecosystem Accelerate AI Adoption in Government Drive Adoption of AI within the Department of Defense Protect Commercial and Government AI Innovations Combat Synthetic Media in the Legal System

I can’t take this seriously, as recent actions by this administration directly contradicts a few of these stated goals.

Or maybe I don’t want to, because this sounds dangerous to me at this time.

Re:US AI Action Plan by neilcj on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:49PM (#44661291)
Don't regulate it except to push political goals sure seems like a recipe for success.
Re:US AI Action Plan by msgodel on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @01:52PM (#44661991)
>Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation

What red tape? Anyone can buy/rent a GPU(s) and train stuff.

Re:US AI Action Plan by jabjq on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:19PM (#44662309)
If you click the website you will see that there is a link to a pdf that explains what this means.
Re:US AI Action Plan by nerevarthelame on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:28PM (#44662391)
I read the PDF. The "Remove Red Tape and Onerous Regulation Recommended Policy Actions" don't cite to any specific existing regulations. It just references executive orders that vaguely demand any such regulations be eliminated.

So it bears repeating: what red tape?

Re:US AI Action Plan by lovich on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:43PM (#44662558)
The red tape that they said was there.

If you need further details than that, then I don’t think you have grokked the style of governance that this administration is operating under.

Edit: that’s a general “you”, not you specifically

Re:US AI Action Plan by fragmede on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:48PM (#44663214)
Given that this extends to the power plants for AI data centers, the question is have you tried to make a nuclear or coal power plant any time in the past decade? I haven't, personally, but I hear there's a lot.
Re:US AI Action Plan by ToucanLoucan on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @05:35PM (#44664289)
Well whenever Republicans bang on about red tape, it's usually stuff like:

* Anything remotely pro-environment

* Anything remotely pro-labor

* Anything not covered by either of those that attempts to stop someone who has a lot of money from doing A Thing

Re:US AI Action Plan by roboror on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:01PM (#44664502)
Tariffs obviously /s
Re:US AI Action Plan by wredcoll on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:49PM (#44664840)
I thought it was funny.
Re:US AI Action Plan by throw0101b on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:49PM (#44662640)
> What red tape? Anyone can buy/rent a GPU(s) and train stuff.

Well previously the Chinese were not able to, but that was changed recently:

* https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wins-ok-to-resume-sales-of-a...

* https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/22/nvidia-chip-deal-us-chi...

Re:US AI Action Plan by actionfromafar on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @08:08PM (#44665453)
I am sure someone is winning from this. But it aint the American public.
Re:US AI Action Plan by blibble on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @08:54PM (#44665706)
NVIDIA shareholders
Re:US AI Action Plan by jimmydoe on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @01:54PM (#44662028)
most of these are vibe signaling, like Communist Party of China has been doing in past year, except this won't work as effective here as in China, not even close, because the US is not authoritarian enough to mobilize every level of the govt and the economy by just empty propaganda slogans.
Re:US AI Action Plan by leptons on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:27PM (#44664676)
>this won't work as effective here as in China, not even close, because the US is not authoritarian enough to mobilize every level of the govt and the economy by just empty propaganda slogans.

Have you been under a rock for the last 6 months as Trump tells Xi Jinping to hold his beer??

Re:US AI Action Plan by amradio1989 on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @07:10PM (#44665009)
Comparing Trump to Xi Jinping is an unfunny joke. Americans have lost the plot on what true authoritarianism really looks like.

America has no chance vs China in the AI race precisely because the President of the CCP has far more power in his country than the President of the US. Its not even close.

Re:US AI Action Plan by dmonitor on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @07:52PM (#44665343)
I'm not a fan of the growing "The US needs to become more autocratic before the bad guys get us" narrative that AI proselytizers keep sharing.
Re:US AI Action Plan by leptons on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @10:43PM (#44666339)
Okay, so you have not been paying attention to current events. The US is now a full fascist autocracy. Nothing trump does while in office can be prosecuted. There are masked police in the streets arresting anyone they want. There simply are no more consequences for breaking the law and ignoring the courts. You may not think the US is authoritarian on the level of China, but it's catching up very quickly.
Re:US AI Action Plan by foxglacier on Thursday July 24, 2025 @02:10AM (#44667483)
For comparison, could you identify the other countries that you consider to be full fascist autocracies? Something more western than China or North Korea.
Re:US AI Action Plan by discgolf3 on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:28AM (#44669065)
Since when did power mean innovation?
Re:US AI Action Plan by trod1234 on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @01:09PM (#44661523)
Exactly. You said it.

Anyone serious knows contradiction = lies.

Words are cheap, actions matter.

Re:US AI Action Plan by actionfromafar on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @05:23PM (#44664187)
This reads like "Cultural Learnings of AI for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Amerika".
Re:US AI Action Plan by thrance on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:47AM (#44669997)
For real, this shamelessness in the language is extremely reminiscent of the USSR.
Re:US AI Action Plan by Karawebnetwork on Thursday July 24, 2025 @11:29AM (#44671913)
> Removing Red Tape and Onerous Regulation Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Free Speech

Yet at the same time,

> Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government [...] LLMs shall be neutral, nonpartisan tools that do not manipulate responses in favor of ideological dogmas such as DEI. [...] DEI includes the suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs; incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex. [1]

I don't understand how free speech can be protected while suppressing topics such as "unconscious bias" and "discrimination".

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/prev...

Re:US AI Action Plan by jmyeet on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:36PM (#44672780)
The answer is obvious: it never has been about free speech. Just replace "free speech" with "hate speech" in all of these missives [1][2][3].

[1]: https://theconversation.com/how-do-you-stop-an-ai-model-turn...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...