Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

It sounds good to establish a national standard! The right way to do that is to pass a law through both houses of Congress, then the president can sign it. Maybe they even specify a framework and tell the executive branch to dial in the specific details. The god-king proclaiming a brand new framework to be so is.. not the normal way of things…

> Sec. 7. *Preemption of State Laws* Mandating Deceptive Conduct in AI Models.

This is just flat out bribery, using the thinnest of legal fig leaves. Which would not possibly pass muster if he hadn't also packed the court with supporters.

This is naive, productivity increases had decoupled from compensation a long time ago. See https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ for example. AI certainly can create wealth, and in fact already did (hey NVDA), but somehow that did not trickle down. I think more likely than not, AI will further our society.

Exactly zero of the AI bros who believe they're going to push us into a workless utopia have even began to tell us about how we're all supposed to survive without work or being born obscenely rich.

You may not be aware, but today in 2025 the overwhelming majority of Americans rely on work for survival. They trade time for money, and use that to pay for things like housing or health care or food. How does one acquire these things if they cannot trade their time anymore, in a society that fully believes that even giving a child $1 for lunch money the moral equivalent to the worst atrocities and horrors of Soviet and Chinese socialism?

Which planet is going to sustain that? More productivity doesn't add any resources to sustain your lifecycle.

I know it's a hip thing to say these days but it isn't accurate. I know everyone wants to one-up everything but they are just rich. Oligarchs are generally government officials who are given money and power by government.

Copyright law is another counter-example to your argument. But somehow? that’s no longer a concern if you have enough money

Where did you get the idea that this was the cause that created millions of jobs and lead to the US running the world's largest economy, and not say - the knock-on effects of the US joining WW2 relatively late and unscathed, making it the only major world power left with a functioning enough industrial complex to export to war-ravaged Europe?

Arguably true, but it's also been way ahead of the pack (people tend to forget this) on protection for organized labor, social safety net entitlements, and regulation of harmful industrial safety and environmental externalities.

This statement is awfully one-sided.

Until that "innovation and disruption" threatens any established player, at which point they run crying to the government to grease some palms. China is innovating and disrupting the entire energy sector via renewables and battery storage while the US is cowering in the corner trying to flaccidly resuscitate the corpse of the coal industry.

Can you point to a concrete example of this?