Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals(www.politico.com)
32 pointsby _alternator_2 hours ago5 comments
  • albert_ean hour ago
    Timing around Anthropic valuation crossing OpenAI and getting ready for IPO ...
  • andsoitisan hour ago
    So this is going back to the spirit of what the Biden admin and the frontier labs wanted just recently?

    https://www.bis.gov/press-release/biden-harris-administratio...

    More regulated rather than unregulated (or very lightly regulated).

    Most people would probably say that’s a good thing, if I read the tea leaves correctly.

  • culian hour ago
    The Executive Order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/prom...

    IMO this isn't much more egregious than the "stop woke AI" executive order he signed in July 2025 which explicitly regulated the "ideology" of LLMs

    https://www.paulhastings.com/insights/client-alerts/presiden...

  • k310an hour ago
    This from the party of "no interference with business".

    It's obviously a means to take control of AI, because the security argument fails Bigly after the firing of top security experts in the government (who might have the "wrong" views" )

    Something about free speech being free for me but not for you?

    • andsoitisan hour ago
      Do you think AI should be unregulated?
      • tssvaan hour ago
        If AI is going to be regulated those regulations should be debated in public and based upon the resulting laws passed by the legislative process and not determined by royal decree.
        • andsoitisan hour ago
          The previous administration did same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14110

          So if we’re going to be rational about it, I think it is better to critique the substance of the EO rather than its mere existence, which is common practice: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or...

          So in that spirit, what do you think of the substance?

          • _aavaa_30 minutes ago
            No, we be rational and critique its existence. Especially given the current administrations track record.
          • jMyles23 minutes ago
            Well sure, the previous administration also abused executive authority. That's not news or controversial in any way.

            How does that make it better for the current administration to do it?

            • andsoitis11 minutes ago
              Executive Orders are a common practice across presidencies, not just the current and previous: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or...

              Whether that’s abuse or not I am not equipped to say with any confidence. I’d be curious to understand why you think this particular case is one of abusing executive authority and when an EO might not be such a case?

      • nradovan hour ago
        Yes, if we're talking about running LLMs. It's just math.
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        • trial329 minutes ago
          yeah, in the way that knives are “just metal”

          you’re being so reductive you’ve made any discussion about it completely useless

      • jMyles24 minutes ago
        It's bizarre and frustrating that the language has come to view the word "regulated" as synonymous with "subject to statutory authority of the state."

        Plenty of innovations are regulated (ie, its regularity maintained) without the state.

        Do we really imagine that intervention by the imperial hegemon is likely to lead to regulation, rather than capture and weaponization?

  • 4ffaan hour ago
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