Lock In, Chat: Trump Goes All-In on AI
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It's Tuesday, September fifteenth. The president's message? In Claude We Trust. We start here. President Trump dismisses alarm bells being run by AI companies themselves. He said this is a hoax, it's not happening. What some lawmakers are begging to do and why the president's not interested. Alligator Alcatraz was keeping ICE detainees in, well, these sound a lot like cages. We're talking about a space that's roughly around four feet by four feet. These claims aren't coming from activists either, they're coming from a government watchdog. Old power plants can go back to the old days.
of the Clean Air Act is that it does not cover greenhouse gas emissions in this capacity.
The new rule from the EPA and what it means for the planet. From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky. The artificial intelligence revolution has been compared to the gold rush, the oil boom. Multiple tech experts have likened it to something bigger. They say it's more like the advent of electricity. But here's the thing I don't recall Thomas Edison begging the government to rein in the power of the electron. John D. Rockefeller was not calling on his colleagues to just cool it a little. Let's all take a breath. And yet, in recent days, that is what has been happening in the tech world.
What is President Trump's stance on accelerating U.S. AI development?
World. A couple days ago on CBS, Dario Amade, the CEO of Anthropic, said the technology he has helped develop is already in desperate need. of reform.
I won't lie to you, there are real dangers. And and I think for too long the industry lied to people about the fact that this technology had risk.
And this is the thing, nothing surprised Steve Jobs about the power of personal computing, right? He could see miles away how his creations were about to change the world. So if anyone should be able to wrap their heads around the power of AI, it's someone like Amadei. But he says he's even been surprised. I don't
think I fully just appreciated what it would actually be like when the progress was as fast as it was.
Yesterday, you could feel this dam breaking around Washington. All the public distrust of AI came bubbling to the surface. Politicians and CEOs, they're not stupid, they've seen this turn coming, and anyone running for election knows that AI is quickly turning into less of a golden ticket than a golden weight around your neck. But President Trump is not up for election. And yesterday, he doubled down on his position. We'll steam ahead. Let's start the day with ABC's. Elizabeth Schholze, who covers business and tech policy in DC. In fact, she's at the Capitol now. Elizabeth, a lot happening yesterday in the AI space. What is the word from the White House?
A lot happening in a space where things are moving very quickly already, Brad. So President Trump is flatly rejecting those dire warnings that you just laid out from these top AI companies. But I
think you have a lot of negative voices and are bringing it up that uh shouldn't be bringing it up, and they're bringing up things that won't happen.
He said outright in a post the only control or guardrails that AI needs is a strong and smart high IQ president, and the USA has that, in spades, completely dismissing the idea that something needs to be done imminently to control this technology before humans lose control of it. And the president went even further, Brad, in saying that the idea that AI is a threat to humanity, those Ominous warnings we've heard from AI researchers in just the last couple of days. He called that a hoax. He said, This is a hoax, it's not happening.
We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world. And frankly, I want to keep it that way.
And the President continues to point to an argument that the US needs to go full speed ahead on AI so that it does not lose ground to China, which is a sentiment that we are hearing also on Capitol Hill from a lot of Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, who said
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Chapters
7 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:53
2
What is President Trump's stance on accelerating U.S. AI development?
1:53–6:17
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How does the Trump administration describe the need for AI guardrails?
6:17–11:57
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What did the DHS Inspector General reveal about the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility?
11:57–18:20
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Why are lawmakers debating an AI “kill switch” legislation?
18:20–23:51
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How is the EPA planning to roll back Biden-era power‑plant emissions rules?
23:51–26:51
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What arguments are being made about the economic impact of EPA rule changes?
26:51–29:33