One of the biggest challenges of reporting to the new government is that it is difficult to figure out who is really shooting the camera. With AI. In his comments on world leaders AI Action Summit in Paris Last week, Vice President JD Vance listed what the Trump administration should think about AI: “This administration will ensure that U.S. AI technology continues to be the global gold standard, and we are the choice of others to cooperate. Partners – Foreign and foreign and of course, when they expand their use of AI, businesses.”
He specifically talked about the importance of the United States having its own advanced semiconductor design industry. Currently, there is a desperate battle in the AI industry to purchase enough advanced computer chips to run on AI systems. They are an essential technology and building them in the United States is a reasonable priority, regardless of your concerns about the ability to fight China’s advanced AI, conventional warfare, which will inhibit semiconductor imports or re-engineering manufacturing.
Vance’s speech is a view of AI: Based on his speech, I hope that despite many of the features of AI policies in the era of Biden Administration, such as concerns about misinformation generated by AI, it may still be 2022 CHIPS and Scientific Law This encourages the development of the advanced semiconductor industry in the United States, as well as the restricted exports of advanced semiconductors – which have been here. so far The chip project is progressing smoothly. Therefore, I hope the government will stick with it, even double it.
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Trump officials may still do so. But it is hard to say now, because another department of the new government’s action is: the Governor. As you must hear now, what Elon Musk calls it Ministry of Government Efficiency In many government departments, all probation employees are systematically fired, that is, anyone employed or promoted in the last year. These include most people in the government who are employed in AI work, including most employees who are engaged in implementing the “Share Act”, Axios Report This week, a conversation with sources familiar with the decision was cited. According to Axios, “57% of chip workers focused on incentives for 74 postdoctoral fellows” and “67% of chip workers focused on R&D were fired.” (It seems that the cut hasn’t happened yet, so there’s still a good chance that administrators will reverse the course or limit their scope.)
To be clear: this is not a target cut. This is not the government’s decision to reverse the line on the bargaining chips. It’s just that every time you’re hiring shots at most of the government, Musk’s team may shoot by chance due to all the recent expertise that AI has accumulated around AI.
At the beginning of the Biden administration, there was little talk of AI outside the Silicon Valley. Even in the 2022 midterm elections, we are still physically ahead. It was not until the past two years that AI began to reverse the world.
First there is Chatgpt, then the battle for all the other major tech companies in the United States to produce competitors: Dall-E 2, then Midjourney, and other open source AI Art Generators that expel artists from operations and transform the artists available on the Internet visual content. Then come DeepSeek And other AI models that can be “can”reason,”Now In-depth researchwhat many people say can basically replace research interns.
Because it all happened in two years, all governments hired all employees who focused on fighting our new AI-driven world as new employees, not only those working on chips, but also U.S. National Standards Research Everyone in the Institute Technology is the Institute of AI Security, which engages in AI research and tests the risks and functions of commercial AI models. This means that most of them are trial employees, who may be affected by the federal government’s rampage.
This is a very stupid question. If the government wants to abandon the advanced semiconductor industry in the United States, that’s one thing. But if the government wants to have a high-level semiconductor industry to remain competitive in the most important technology of the 21st century, as Vance said, it is ridiculous to give up on it because it happens that we have hired most people who have recently engaged in it.
One of the ways AI has posed unprecedented challenges to governments is its speed of action. This is not the first technology to eliminate a lot of work or significantly change the way other works are working. However, the faster these transitions occur, the more lives they may damage in the damage they cause, and the harder the operation of democratic oversight and regulatory mechanisms. If AI will happen slowly and gradually change the way we live and work in the next 30 years, I will be very optimistic that we will have enough time to correct, learn and design the proper laws.
But AI is happening very quickly, and the US government (usually not very good at doing things quickly) has been on the verge of the moment. And, Doge looks like it can easily make things worse – not even through malice, but through inattention. It’s much faster to fire people than to hire them. Freezing funds is much faster than figuring out what you can best use. But with AI, we need to be able to quickly accumulate expertise, act quickly, and align with the pace of change in the private sector. Doge was initially considered the institution that made this easier. But so far, they have made it even harder.
It seems to me that in current government, the world-changing AI will most likely arrive, and the technology could replace tens of millions of jobs overnight, which would represent a huge change in the concentration of power in our society, and experts Warning that it may happen Fatal error. Vance is not wrong with upsides. Musk believes that artificial intelligence will have a great chance to destroy humans, but there is nothing wrong with that shortcoming. But if they want their government to make the situation go smoothly, they both will have to be serious.
