Zvi盘点AI政治周：特朗普否认生存风险并拟设AI Force

This was the month the world took notice that AI might kill everyone.

Jacob Coxon’s resignation set off a preference cascade. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote that we must pace the frontier. Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis agreed.

We were filled with hope. Perhaps we could agree to some basic safety measures, starting with embedded evaluators, pass some basic regulations and guardrails and otherwise start to act sensibly. Politicians on both sides took notice and were saying sensible things. The usual suspects and their armies of vibe comment bros were objecting, but the change was remarkable.

Then, largely motivated by a combination of Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg and David Sacks instilling paranoia and fears of economic problems, Trump went full ‘hoax’ on existential risk, conflating existential risk with the attacks on data centers and treating it as a plot (by the central creators of AI?) to take down AI rather than obviously genuine concern that AI might kill everyone.

In the days since, Trump has doubled down, and has compelled smart others in the White House to echo various nonsensical talking points.

You may not be interested in politics. But when you want to save the world, or change it, and you start to get traction, politics is going to get interested in you.

So all right, fine. Let’s talk about the week in AI politics. So far.

Table of Contents

• The American People Really Hate AI.
• The Voyages of Donald Trump.
• American Intelligence.
• And You May Ask Yourself.
• It’s All About the Data Centers.
• JD Vance, Michael Kratsios and Collective Action Problems.
• Josh Hawley.
• Suggesting Not Dying Gets You Sued For Antitrust.
• Other Government Officials Say Sane Things.
• Senator John Curtis (R-Utah).
• Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana.
• Barack Obama.
• Yassamin Ansari.
• AOC.
• It’s Rough Out There.
• This Is Nothing.
• The New York Post Tops Itself But Outright Breaks The Rules.
• New York Post Runs Out of Steam.
• If The Model Is Acting As Instructed And It Kills You That Is Not Fine.
• AI-Written Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Lies About HuggingFace.
• That’s Bait.
• I Clearly Cannot Choose The Wine In Front of Me.

The American People Really Hate AI

The people do not like how Donald Trump is handling AI.

They do not know the half of it.

If Americans understood that Trump was calling not only existential risk from AI but also every complaint involving data centers one of his ‘hoaxes’ I would expect his approval rating here, and overall, to deteriorate rather further.

I would extend this even further if you include the things I did not know about when I wrote the above sentence, because at the time it was only Friday. Life comes at you fast.

Anyway, this was the situation in a poll published last week. His overall approval is included for context:

Trump thinks the problem is not saying his positions clearly or loudly enough, and he is going to try and fix that. Did you know there is an election in six weeks?

The Voyages of Donald Trump

On September 19, around 10:12am, he dropped this new creation, only modified to include paragraph breaks since Trump thinks the enter key is a HOAX.

Donald Trump: Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender for Everyone,

and now, the decimation, or destruction, of AI, commonly known as Artificial Intelligence — And I, as President of the United States, will not stand by and let this happen.

It all began with an attack on our Data Centers, until people realized how wealthy and prestigious they were for the Communities in which they were built. Higher Salaries, Lower Taxes, and Safer Streets, was the result, and the crazed Data Center attack has largely failed, so now, in much the same way as they changed the term “Global Warming” to “Climate Change,” in that it covers a much larger “territory” of doubt, they are going straight at AI.

Trump has come a long way with the tactic of calling things failures in order to cause them to fail. There is no world in which the ‘crazed Data Center attack’ has largely failed, and if it had we wouldn’t be here talking about it this way.

We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows! However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System.

As in, no new rules or regulations, except the ones I already added, and the ones I ad hoc add later when I feel like it because I think something is bad. And by bad I mean bad for business.

For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term. To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI “Czar” — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!

Hey, I like to think of myself as a High I.Q. individual.

David Sacks was the first AI Czar, so it would be hard but not impossible to do worse.

The more interesting idea is the AI Force. It actually is plausible that the Space Force is a success, as far as it goes. What would it mean to have an AI Force? Who knows. Could be anything. The analogy to Space Force does not actually make logistical sense, nor does having a branch of the military. I can think of versions called AI Force that are net useful and sane. I can think of versions that are neither.

AI is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country’s GDP. We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!

He’s a quarter of the way there. AI could be as much as 100% of our Country’s GDP.

American Intelligence

Trump also decided to… rename AI? The man does have a knack for names.

Donald J. Trump: Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing “Revolution?” President DONALD J. TRUMP

Of the three, all of which are funny, Superior Intelligence is the best. None of them make sense for obvious reasons if you try saying them in a sentence, but that’s okay.

Then he decided ‘supreme’ is bad because of the ‘supreme court’ and reset the vote:

Donald J. Trump: “Supreme Intelligence,” probably because of its relationship to the Supreme Court, is losing badly to both “Superior” and “Extreme Intelligence.” Therefore, we are going to take “Supreme Intelligence” OUT, deleting it as a qualifier, and let you vote for the Final Two: Superior Intelligence, or Extreme Intelligence. A fresh Vote begins now!

It’s weird to see such random outright falsehoods, since Supreme Intelligence was actually outright ahead of Extreme at the time he said it was ‘losing badly’ to it, but whatever, do we even notice such things anymore, nothing matters, etc.

I’m not sure if that was before or after he announced the new plan for a Triumphal Arch that will double as a military complex.

Never one to believe the polls, or not tempt fate, Trump went a different way.

Andrew Curran: President Trump just now on Truth Social:

‘I’m not going to stifle Growth, of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself. We will be careful, and that’s why we have the Department of Justice, and other Law Enforcement bodiesob, that will rein things in if we have to, but I will only encourage AI or, SI (SUPER INTELLIGENCE)!