Cal Newport

And it has been incredibly successful.

There is a pall of anxiety and fear and uneasiness that tens, if not hundreds of millions of people are feeling right now because of

the direct communication strategies of all these companies to be continually trying to keep people unsettled and fearful and distrustful of what this technology is going to do.

The psychic damage this has caused to our country unquestionably is much larger than any benefits that the AI technology to date has actually provided us.

And I think the government...

has a role to get involved here.

You do not get, without restriction, to run a psyops on 300 million people because you think either it makes you feel important or you think it's going to help you and a small number of early investors become richer than, you know, Mammon.

That is, the government steps in now

If you make a claim in your dog food ad that isn't quite right, and yet, hey, you want to just like continually see, have a game of who can terrify like the average, you know, the average citizen more about AI without any restriction or change to what you're doing, we're not just going to applaud it.

I think that actually is a reasonable place.

These are extreme circumstances.

This is a reasonable place for government involvement.

So what would it look like for the government to act on those justifications

better than what we're seeing right now out of the Trump administration.

Well, I want to return to the Trump administration because they did something recently, which is a step in the right direction.

On June 2nd, Trump signed an executive order titled Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security.

This report, this executive order requests that AI companies voluntarily provide the federal government access to covered frontier models for a cybersecurity review up to 30 days before their plan released to other trusted partners.

That's a step in the right direction because it shows, like, wait a second, the government should have some role in these technologies powerful enough.

I would go farther, however.

I would say it is mandatory, not voluntary.