Some of Donald Trump’s most diehard supporters in office are rallying against the president’s embrace of artificial intelligence.
Partisan politics in the United States makes for a generally contentious atmosphere But these days, the mainstream rift isn’t just between blue and red — even some of president Donald Trump’s most diehard fanatics have become openly belligerent over the president’s obsession with AI.
Following the release this summer of president Trump’s « AI Action Plan » — a sweeping blueprint outlining the white house’s strategy to ramp up AI development while slashing regulation — a number of far-right stalwarts from Marjorie Taylor Greene to Steven Bannon have ripped into Trump over his tech policies.
« I have many concerns about the AI Executive Order signed yesterday by President Trump », Taylor Greene wrote on X-formerly-Twitter, the day after Trump’s « Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government » executive order.
« My deep concerns are that the EO [executive order] demands rapid AI expansion with little to no guardrails and breaks », the Georgia representative continued. « This needs a careful and wise approach. The AI EO takes the opposite. »
And Bannon, a longtime Trump loyalist who briefly served as Trump’s chief strategist at the outset of his first term, compared the approach to « summoning the demon », according to new reporting from Politico.
