Trump Issues Executive Orders Banning ‘Woke’ AI Models
On Wednesday, 23rd July, President Donald Trump banned “woke AI” and AI models from government contracts. At an AI summit in Washington, Trump condemned “woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models” before signing the orders on stage at the Mellon Auditorium, as reported by The Guardian.
The new order states that any artificial intelligence company receiving federal funding must maintain ideologically neutral AI models that are free of “ideological dogmas such as DEI.” This comes after Trump revoked a six-decade-old executive order that prohibited workplace discrimination by federal contractors.
President Donald Trump banning woke AI
The order states that DEI is a “pervasive and destructive” ideology that can “distort the quality and accuracy of the output,” which explicitly means information related to race or sex, manipulation of racial or sexual representation, critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism, as stated by Techcrunch.
The director of the Office of Management and Budget, in coordination with the administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, the administrator of General Services, and the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, must give instructions to other agencies on how to comply with the executive orders.
What other orders were issued?
President Trump’s other orders included accelerating federal authorization for data center infrastructure and promoting the export of American AI models. We need US technology companies to be all-in for America. We want you to put America first,” Trump said.
Another order demanded deregulating AI development, expanding the construction of data centers, and removing environmental protections that could hinder their construction.
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