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.
