Andrew Sage

But we remain in the earliest days of the technological revolution and in a race with adversaries for supremacy within it.

Trump stated in an interview that he expects AI to be 50 to 60 percent of the U.S.

economy in the near future, which is nuts.

Maybe that's just because everything else will just go to complete shit, you know?

The reality is that like AI is not even close to being that value in terms of like what the economy produces.

But nearly all of our growth is related and like is tied right now to data center investment.

So Trump absolutely needs AI because without it, the country is very obviously in a recession.

This is the only thing propping up the image of the economy as not being in the shitter.

Now, what does this EO actually do?

Well, the goal of this, the statement is that it is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance the United States' global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI.

This EO will establish an AI litigation task force within 30 days of this order going out.

The attorney general is supposed to establish this task force whose responsibility is to challenge state AI laws that are inconsistent with the policy set forward above, right?

That we need to be globally dominant in AI, right?

So this task force is supposed to go out and find state laws that it believes are like an onerous burden on the development of this technology.

Going along with this, within 90 days of the order, the Secretary of Commerce is supposed to do an evaluation of all state AI laws in order to like point out which ones this task force should go after.

And then the stick that this EO establishes is that if this task force decides that like a state AI law is in violation of our need to be dominant in AI, we can restrict state funding to things like the broadband equity access and deployment program, right?

Basically, they'll cut off federal funding for like broadband access in order to punish states that try to restrict or in any way, shape or form govern what people can use, what companies can use AI for.

And the primary thing this is all about, I know we all think about the stuff that, like, most people have more direct experience with, which is, like, all the slop, flooding the internet, the disinformation that's continuing to cook the brains of a lot of our peers and elders.

And just the fact that, like, it's making certain industries full of hardworking people a lot harder to exist because companies are just trying to replace quality work with absolute, like—

Slop.