Tripp Mickle

Those changes win David Sachs' blessing.

And on Tuesday morning...

With almost – with zero fanfare and no advance notice to tech companies, the White House posted a notification on its website saying that President Trump has signed the executive order and it is now policy.

It is small by design, no doubt about it.

But it shows how the ground has shifted in Washington on AI policy.

And the door has now been cracked open to have a bigger conversation about whether or not there should be other rules or regulations in the future.

Remember, this technology is moving really, really fast and everyone was blindsided in April.

So, you know, trying to catch up to where the technology is going is where a lot of people's head is right now in Washington.

Yes.

I mean, there has been a steady drumbeat that has increased in volume over the past year.

And it's coming from two sides of the country politically.

It's coming from populists on the left, people like Bernie Sanders, and populists on the right, people like Steve Bannon.

Mm-hmm.

they would all like to see the government take a more heavy-handed role in regulating artificial intelligence, largely because this is a really disruptive technology.

It's going to have huge ramifications for the country, and they believe that there's not being enough done to put the government at the forefront of where it's going.

Steve Bannon has long been skeptical of big tech.

A lot of the brologarchs.

And tech brologarchs, as he calls them.

because he's really concerned that they're going to sell out the American public, enrich themselves, and they're going to do it without any transparency or any accountability.

And that's where he wants the government to step in and provide some rules for the road.