Dean Ball

There was way more foreshadowing of regulation to come.

I think it's exaggerated sometimes how much they themselves actually regulated.

But if you go back and look at what they did, they were clearly putting the scaffolding in place, right?

for a significant regulatory regime to come, probably in the term that Joe Biden's second term or Kamala Harris's first, right?

So the Trump administration, first of all, dismantled large portions of that.

Second of all, I think thematically, the big difference is, you know, there's sort of a vibe based difference of, you know, we want to embrace this technology, we want to let it grow, innovation, etc.

But one other one that I think is really important is this issue of like adoption and diffusion.

So I think, you know, the action plan, if you if you look at it, one of the things you'll see that sort of laced throughout it is this emphasis on transformative adoption of AI of AI in throughout the economy and in government.

And I think the Biden folks were, you know, on the other hand, much more interested in like, you know,

uh, this idea of very, very large models trained on huge amounts of compute in these giant data centers and like the development of those things and where those data centers would be.

And, you know, they'd be on federal lands with big military installations.

And, you know, again, like Trump administration wants to build those data centers and, and like train the big models and all that stuff.

It's not about that.

It's more about like this idea that what we're doing is, um,

we're racing toward this development of some big model after which everything is different.

So way more of a Manhattan Project kind of vibe.

Whereas I think the folks in the Trump administration, certainly myself, kind of don't see it that way.

Sort of see it much more as like a, this is about the challenging issue of diffusing this technology and transforming the way that work is done, the way that organizations are structured, et cetera, et cetera.

Yeah, I mean, I think the way that they would put it, the way that people in the Trump administration would put it, would be that they come at this from the perspective of Silicon Valley.

And they come at this from the perspective of, we need to build global ecosystems around our chip technology, right?