{"id":800,"date":"2025-07-23T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:24:16","slug":"from-tech-podcasts-to-policy-trumps-new-ai-plan-leans-heavily-on-silicon-valley-industry-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/from-tech-podcasts-to-policy-trumps-new-ai-plan-leans-heavily-on-silicon-valley-industry-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"From tech podcasts to policy: Trump\u2019s new AI plan leans heavily on Silicon Valley industry ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By MATT O\u2019BRIEN and ALI SWENSON, Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/silicon-valley-tech-workers-musk-trump-billionaires-b968a67889a2430d4906108fb7d28f8a\">Silicon Valley billionaires<\/a> is now being forged into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-inauguration-tech-billionaires-zuckerberg-musk-wealth-0896bfc3f50d941d62cebc3074267ecd\">tech figures<\/a> who backed his election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Wednesday is planning to reveal an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ai-artificial-intelligence-executive-order-eef1e5b9bec861eaf9b36217d547929c\">\u201cAI Action Plan\u201d<\/a> he ordered after returning to the White House in January. He gave his tech advisers six months to come up with new AI policies after revoking President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ai-repeal-biden-executive-order-artificial-intelligence-18cb6e4ffd1ca87151d48c3a0e1ad7c1\">signature AI guardrails<\/a> on his first day in office.<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling is co-hosted by the bipartisan Hill and Valley Forum and the All-In Podcast, a business and technology show hosted by four tech investors and entrepreneurs who include Trump\u2019s AI czar, David Sacks.<\/p>\n<p>The plan and related executive orders are expected to include some familiar tech lobby pitches. That includes accelerating the sale of AI technology abroad and making it easier to construct the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/data-centers-artificial-intelligence-technology-amazon-google-56b84cbb94942039754282afb076a87b\">energy-hungry data center buildings<\/a> that are needed to form and run AI products, according to a person briefed on Wednesday\u2019s event who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>It might also include some of the AI culture war preoccupations of the circle of venture capitalists who endorsed Trump last year.<\/p>\n<h4>Blocking \u2018woke AI\u2019\u00a0from tech contractors<\/h4>\n<p>Countering the liberal bias they see in AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Google\u2019s Gemini has long been a rallying point for the tech industry\u2019s loudest Trump backers.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related left\">\n<h2 class=\"widget-title\" data-curated-ids=\"\" data-relation-type=\"automatic-primary-section\">Related Articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/23\/appeals-court-birthright-citizenship\/\" title=\"Appeals court finds Trump\u2019s effort to end birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAppeals court finds Trump\u2019s effort to end birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/23\/epstein-congress\/\" title=\"House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tHouse subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/23\/epstein-grand-jury\/\" title=\"Judge rejects Trump administration effort to unseal Epstein grand jury records in Florida\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tJudge rejects Trump administration effort to unseal Epstein grand jury records in Florida\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/23\/medicaid-work-status-tracking\/\" title=\"Tracking Medicaid patients\u2019 work status may prove difficult for states\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tTracking Medicaid patients\u2019 work status may prove difficult for states\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/22\/house-ending-session-early-as-republicans-clash-over-epstein-vote\/\" title=\"House ending session early as Republicans clash over Epstein vote\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"dfm-title metered\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tHouse ending session early as Republicans clash over Epstein vote\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sacks, a former PayPal executive and now Trump\u2019s top AI adviser, has been criticizing \u201cwoke AI\u201d for more than a year, fueled by Google\u2019s February 2024 rollout of an AI image generator that, when asked to show an American Founding Father, created pictures of Black, Asian and Native American men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AI\u2019s incapable of giving you accurate answers because it\u2019s been so programmed with diversity and inclusion,\u201d Sacks said at the time. Google quickly fixed its tool, but the \u201cBlack George Washington\u201d moment remained a parable for the problem of AI\u2019s perceived political bias, taken up by X owner Elon Musk, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Vice President JD Vance and Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The administration\u2019s latest push against \u201cwoke AI\u201d comes a week after the Pentagon announced new $200 million contracts with four leading AI companies, including Google, to address \u201ccritical national security challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also receiving one of the contracts was Musk\u2019s xAI, which has been pitched as an alternative to \u201cwoke AI\u201d companies. The company has faced its own challenges: Earlier this month, xAI had to scramble to remove posts made by its Grok chatbot that <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/elon-musk-chatbot-ai-grok-d745a7e3d0a7339a1159dc6c42475e29\">made antisemitic comments<\/a> and praised Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<h4>Streamlining AI data center permits<\/h4>\n<p>Trump has paired AI\u2019s need for huge amounts of electricity with his own push to tap into U.S. energy sources, including gas, coal and nuclear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything we aspire to and hope for means the demand and supply of energy in America has to go up,\u201d said Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House\u2019s Office of Science and Technology Policy, in a video posted Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Many tech giants are already well on their way toward building new data centers in the U.S. and around the world. OpenAI announced this week that it has switched on the first phase of a massive data center complex in Abilene, Texas, part of an Oracle-backed project known as Stargate that Trump promoted earlier this year. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and xAI also have major projects underway.<\/p>\n<p>The tech industry has pushed for easier permitting rules to get their computing facilities connected to power, but the AI building boom has also contributed to spiking demand for fossil fuel production that will contribute to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>United Nations Secretary-General <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/climate-change-solar-wind-power-fossil-fuels-6aca4846e594ea8405f91edda39a03ad\">Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called<\/a> on the world\u2019s major tech firms to power data centers completely with renewables by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA typical AI data center eats up as much electricity as 100,000 homes,\u201d Guterres said. \u201cBy 2030, data centers could consume as much electricity as all of Japan does today.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>A new approach to AI exports?<\/h4>\n<p>It\u2019s long been White House policy under Republican and Democratic administrations to curtail certain technology exports to China and other adversaries on national security grounds.<\/p>\n<p>But much of the tech industry argued that Biden went too far at the end of his term in trying to restrict the exports of specialized AI computer chips to more than 100 other countries, including close allies.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Biden administration\u2019s motivation was to stop China from acquiring coveted AI chips in third-party locations such as Southeast Asia or the Middle East, but critics said the measures would end up encouraging more countries to turn to China\u2019s fast-growing AI industry instead of the U.S. as their technology supplier.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen how the Trump administration aims to accelerate the export of U.S.-made AI technologies while countering China\u2019s AI ambitions. California chipmakers Nvidia and AMD <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nvidia-china-ai-chips-h20-trump-91588c36559bc881b8e010a9ed95cf0a\">both announced last week<\/a> that they won approval from the Trump administration to sell to China some of their advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-tech-chips-economy-jobs-micron-trump-e45216eddbd697ad5ead14879a769f7a\">computer chips<\/a> used to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AMD CEO Lisa Su is among the guests planning to attend Trump\u2019s event Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h4>Who benefits from Trump\u2019s AI action plan<\/h4>\n<p>There are sharp debates on how to regulate AI, even among the influential venture capitalists who have been debating it on their favorite medium: the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>While some Trump backers, particularly Andreessen, have advocated an \u201caccelerationist\u201d approach that aims to speed up AI advancement with minimal regulation, Sacks has described himself as taking a middle road of techno-realism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology is going to happen. Trying to stop it is like ordering the tides to stop. If we don\u2019t do it, somebody else will,\u201d Sacks said on the All-In podcast.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 95 groups including labor unions, parent groups, environmental justice organizations and privacy advocates signed a resolution opposing Trump\u2019s embrace of industry-driven AI policy and calling for a \u201cPeople\u2019s AI Action Plan\u201d that would \u201cdeliver first and foremost for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which helped lead the effort, said the coalition expects Trump\u2019s plan to come \u201cstraight from Big Tech\u2019s mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time we say, \u2018What about our jobs, our air, water, our children?\u2019 they\u2019re going to say, \u2018But what about China?\u2019\u201d she said in a call with reporters Tuesday. She said Americans should reject the White House\u2019s argument that the industry is overregulated and fight to preserve \u201cbaseline protections for the public\u201d as AI technology advances.<\/p>\n<p><em>Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim in Washington contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By MATT O\u2019BRIEN and ALI SWENSON, Associated Press An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his election campaign. Trump on Wednesday is planning to reveal an \u201cAI&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.agencywebdesigners.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}