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The latter, published in October 2023, was hardly ambitious. But he was drawing lines. The text, which aimed to “protect Americans from the potential risks of AI systems” required the giants of the sector to share the results of their safety tests with the State. A dedicated agency had been created, the Office for AI Safety and Security. And Joe Biden also planned tools to detect content created by AI, with a mandatory “AI-generated” label on them. Donald Trump removed this set, replacing it with… Nothing at all.
It’s no surprise. On his campaign platform, the man denounced “Joe Biden’s dangerous decree which hinders innovation in AI and imposes radical left ideas”, preferring “an AI anchored in freedom of expression and ‘human flourishing’. Donald Trump imposes no limits on Google, OpenAI or Elon Musk’s xAi. It is up to these companies to conquer even more of the planet with their AI solutions – with the idea of trying to counter Chinese ambitions in this area as much as possible.
Regulation, “a threat”
Interestingly, Donald Trump did not repeal another decree from Joe Biden, published on January 14. This text orders the US Departments of Defense and Energy to lease federal sites where companies can quickly build – at their own expense – data centers for AI. “We will not let America be overtaken when it comes to the technology that will define the future,” Joe Biden said a week ago.
Forward, then. In the medium term, no one sees Washington regulating AI in a tangible way. In a recent speech, Peter Thiel, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and longtime supporter of Donald Trump, said that while AI can be dangerous, “the real threat could come from a government with the power to regulate it”.
-Brussels under maximum pressure
Today, it is the European Union that is under threat, its regulation on AI, which came into force in mid-2024, being the most comprehensive and restrictive. Not to mention its recent regulations on social networks (DSA) and digital markets (DMA). “We will work with President Trump to push back against governments around the world that are attacking American businesses,” Mark Zuckerberg recently said.
What if, ultimately, the greatest adversary of the American giants was themselves? We know the animosity between Elon Musk and Sam Altman. There is also the fight between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for federal contracts related to space. At the same time, Meta and Apple regularly clash over data protection, with the first accusing the second of ostracizing it on its platforms. And Google, let’s not forget, still faces antitrust proceedings in the United States which could, in fineleading to its dismantling.
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