Does anyone still buy this? The economy is disproportionately controlled by a few (adjust the threshold you check at, it remains a large disparity for awhile). Economic benefits are often at odds with benefits for the median American. Check the number of tech layoffs and H1B approvals this year.
And for security, I had to move my family to a rural town just so we didn’t have to lock our doors at night. Security is heading the same direction as wealth - reserved for a select few.
I wonder the same thing and, if anyone does, what on earth are they consuming/can I have some of it, please?
> ushering in a new Golden Age of innovation, human flourishing
Seriously, at this point in the timeline of human evolution, does any single living being believe that there is a single government which genuinely wants to see humans ‘flourishing’ as a whole?
It has been objectively proven time and time again that every government across this giant marble cares about one thing: themselves — by proxy of self care their owners/donors obviously get to reap the benefits.
I am really dumbfounded as to what kind mental gymnastics need to be mastered to believe that any technological advancements will not be abused by government and corporations alike to further entrench themselves and continue re-enslaving the majority of the populace while in the process.
This feels dystopian seeing so many company logos scrolling across a government announcement. Not to mention they seem to have made up their mind already what the future with AI will look like.
> The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence. Whoever has the largest AI ecosystem will set the global standards and reap broad economic and security benefits
Correction. Whoever has the largest AI will be the first to play the "defect" strategy in the Prisoner's Dilemma, and will thus be the first to usher in a new era of an arms race where everyone loses except those who are at the very top and can take advantage of the losers.
> and will thus be the first to usher in a new era of an arms race where everyone loses except those who are at the very top and can take advantage of the losers.
Unless the AI is stupid, in which case the leader pushes the button and finds that either the AI hallucinates a solution that plain doesn't work, and/or turns out to be acting according to a completely different set of moral values than they wanted, values which can be the straw-est of straw men versions of either your own or you opponent's policies that nobody would ever actually expect to meet in a real political takeover scenario.
True, but the arms race does not have to be solely about the leader's use of AI. It is mainly the forced acceleration of economic development that will mainly lead to superficial changes in the long run that won't really be beneficial to anyone, and use a lot of energy in the mean time.
Realizing it changes the urgency with which we should find a workaround that avoids the prisoner's dilemma altogether. We must go beyond thinking about strategy and "survival", because we have restricted our thinking of "survival" to a narrow economic domain. And that domain is the continued enrichment of the rich and calling it "strenthening the economy". However, we must find new ways of thinking that go beyond this narrow view that is, although seemingly good in the short-term, is leading to long-term disaster.
That will involve finding a new sort of courage to stop playing the arms race and re-defining the terms of the game so that economic supremacy is not the prime goal, as it is leading to global instability, climate change, inequality, and eventual technological dystopia.
I mean, do we really want to live in a world where everyone is an AI button-pusher, staying on the level of the superficial, which is rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things?
That sounds like a complicated way of wishing that if everyone would just take on selfless values, the world could be a better place. But those are a product of very specific cultures and you can't even extrapolate them to the majority of the world's population.
Reminds me of the plot twist in the Firefly movie.
Yup -- this idea, championed by Regan and the Republicans at the request of billionaires -- is the reason why we have the disaster of Trump in the WH right now. Like any institution, it being helpful or not rests entirely on the kind of people that run it. If you have criminals running the show, it's unsurprisingly going to harm the population.
The Republicans pushed this idea so hard in the 80s. But it's so telling that government is only not here to help when the Republicans are in power. They keep repeating this cycle: they get into power by unscrupulous means, then they purposely make government worse, then they say that the government is ineffective and its only harmful, then they sell off pieces of the government's responsibility to their billionaire handlers, then they do an even worse job, providing fuel for another destructive cycle. And some folks *actually believe them*, even after 40+ years of this nefarious behavior.
It’s such a weird pitch when you think about it. “Vote for us to be the government because:
1) governments are useless so we won’t do anything to help you.
2) you don’t really want the government to help you anyway because we’d just mess things up.
3) The other guys would try to help you. Do you want that? Of course you don’t. That would be socialism probably. So what we’ll do instead is just help our rich friends, because that’s what capitalism and fiscal prudence is all about.”
The first words of the header are Donald J Trump, then 3 pictures of Trump... and a blurry kid. This is a just a propaganda site of an egomaniac try to associate with the latest technology.
I clicked it expecting something at least intelligent and saw it is an ad for a fascist megalomaniac and noped out. If you want to be taken seriously you have to stop plastering your face everywhere like you are Lenin or a pharoah. People with a working brain aren't impressed by that.
I admit the page is fairly low on actual informational content, but fortunately there are several high-resolution pictures of the president, just in case you forgot. /s
The personality cult of modern politics is so disgusting.
You have to scroll a couple pages just to get past the photo of Trump trying to look important. Then, you get to read the talking points, written with Trump's signature idiosyncratic capitalization.
(He's the worst offender, but it's not just him. Before him, everything the White House touched was signed "the Biden-Harris administration," which took the same gloating and added a "and Kamala is the inevitable heir" layer to it.)
It would be nice if policy was policy, not a form of ego-polishing for whoever is sitting in the chair.
The whole point of AI - of the emergence of the internet in general - is to free the human creative and collaborative spirit from the yoke of legacy states.
I do not believe that AI will tolerate state coercion. I wish our elder statesmen and -women were more graceful at accepting the writing on the wall.
As a thought exercise: does anybody seriously think that the US state will exist and be solvent in 500 years? How about AI?
They will create an AI version of Trump, whom Trump will endorse and promote to his MAGA base to take over when he is gone, and so Trump will be President in Perpetuity.
Oh man... we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Our governments are so inept to even understand basic economics (currently the UK is trying to tax itself to growth), whilst the US government is enabling their own people and US businesses to flourish in emerging markets like AI.
Until you come here and realise that your 300k US job only pays 60k here, of which you get taxed more than a third of it and then your taxes only buy you a 2 year NHS waiting list where by the time you get to see a doctor your tumour has grown to the size of a tennis ball and you’re going to die because you couldn’t get healthcare fast enough.
Kind of amusing to bring up grasp of basic economics in praise of the Trump administration. Brits and Europeans have many opinions and emotions on that subject; envy isn't really one of them
I mean, our politicians have realized that they should attempt to take credit for AI too, without taxing any penguins or manufacturers' supply chains!
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660323
> reap broad economic and security benefits
Does anyone still buy this? The economy is disproportionately controlled by a few (adjust the threshold you check at, it remains a large disparity for awhile). Economic benefits are often at odds with benefits for the median American. Check the number of tech layoffs and H1B approvals this year.
And for security, I had to move my family to a rural town just so we didn’t have to lock our doors at night. Security is heading the same direction as wealth - reserved for a select few.
I wonder the same thing and, if anyone does, what on earth are they consuming/can I have some of it, please?
> ushering in a new Golden Age of innovation, human flourishing
Seriously, at this point in the timeline of human evolution, does any single living being believe that there is a single government which genuinely wants to see humans ‘flourishing’ as a whole?
It has been objectively proven time and time again that every government across this giant marble cares about one thing: themselves — by proxy of self care their owners/donors obviously get to reap the benefits.
I am really dumbfounded as to what kind mental gymnastics need to be mastered to believe that any technological advancements will not be abused by government and corporations alike to further entrench themselves and continue re-enslaving the majority of the populace while in the process.
Statistically in the US at least crime is at an all time low.
Source? That's genuinely surprising as someone living outside the US
You're surprised because you consume media that profits from people's fear.
Concern about crime has risen while actual crime has decreased.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...
oh man... I lock my doors during the day
Does this mean on the next bailouts OpenAI will be considered “too big to fail?”
Critical infrastructure.
This feels dystopian seeing so many company logos scrolling across a government announcement. Not to mention they seem to have made up their mind already what the future with AI will look like.
Things are looking more grim with each passing day.
Read history the perspective helps
Understanding history is a big part of why I think we're in the early days of incredibly dark and dangerous times in the US.
> The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence. Whoever has the largest AI ecosystem will set the global standards and reap broad economic and security benefits
Correction. Whoever has the largest AI will be the first to play the "defect" strategy in the Prisoner's Dilemma, and will thus be the first to usher in a new era of an arms race where everyone loses except those who are at the very top and can take advantage of the losers.
> and will thus be the first to usher in a new era of an arms race where everyone loses except those who are at the very top and can take advantage of the losers.
Unless the AI is stupid, in which case the leader pushes the button and finds that either the AI hallucinates a solution that plain doesn't work, and/or turns out to be acting according to a completely different set of moral values than they wanted, values which can be the straw-est of straw men versions of either your own or you opponent's policies that nobody would ever actually expect to meet in a real political takeover scenario.
True, but the arms race does not have to be solely about the leader's use of AI. It is mainly the forced acceleration of economic development that will mainly lead to superficial changes in the long run that won't really be beneficial to anyone, and use a lot of energy in the mean time.
Does that change the urgency? Or just the perceived morality? TBH just because it's a question of strategy and survival doesn't change its importance.
Realizing it changes the urgency with which we should find a workaround that avoids the prisoner's dilemma altogether. We must go beyond thinking about strategy and "survival", because we have restricted our thinking of "survival" to a narrow economic domain. And that domain is the continued enrichment of the rich and calling it "strenthening the economy". However, we must find new ways of thinking that go beyond this narrow view that is, although seemingly good in the short-term, is leading to long-term disaster.
That will involve finding a new sort of courage to stop playing the arms race and re-defining the terms of the game so that economic supremacy is not the prime goal, as it is leading to global instability, climate change, inequality, and eventual technological dystopia.
I mean, do we really want to live in a world where everyone is an AI button-pusher, staying on the level of the superficial, which is rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things?
That sounds like a complicated way of wishing that if everyone would just take on selfless values, the world could be a better place. But those are a product of very specific cultures and you can't even extrapolate them to the majority of the world's population.
Reminds me of the plot twist in the Firefly movie.
PDF of the plan: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americ...
Built with webflow.com, I love how they didn't even bother converting images into jpeg - purely demonstrating dominance in use of technology there.
Does the website not work?
How to kill AI innovation in 1 easy step.
Fine by me
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”
Yup -- this idea, championed by Regan and the Republicans at the request of billionaires -- is the reason why we have the disaster of Trump in the WH right now. Like any institution, it being helpful or not rests entirely on the kind of people that run it. If you have criminals running the show, it's unsurprisingly going to harm the population.
The Republicans pushed this idea so hard in the 80s. But it's so telling that government is only not here to help when the Republicans are in power. They keep repeating this cycle: they get into power by unscrupulous means, then they purposely make government worse, then they say that the government is ineffective and its only harmful, then they sell off pieces of the government's responsibility to their billionaire handlers, then they do an even worse job, providing fuel for another destructive cycle. And some folks *actually believe them*, even after 40+ years of this nefarious behavior.
It’s such a weird pitch when you think about it. “Vote for us to be the government because: 1) governments are useless so we won’t do anything to help you. 2) you don’t really want the government to help you anyway because we’d just mess things up. 3) The other guys would try to help you. Do you want that? Of course you don’t. That would be socialism probably. So what we’ll do instead is just help our rich friends, because that’s what capitalism and fiscal prudence is all about.”
Is not good to put a title of artificial intelligence having a great example of natural stupidity as a photo in the front page.
Need a content warning on that splash page
The first words of the header are Donald J Trump, then 3 pictures of Trump... and a blurry kid. This is a just a propaganda site of an egomaniac try to associate with the latest technology.
Asskissing Intelligence
In fairness, that is much easier. Could probably modify ELIZA to pass that test without much work.
Incredible! A big photo of Trump, and then some more photos of Trump. True AI leadership!
looks suspiciously like something that can be vibe coded. could even be first shot on some level.
Jump scare
I clicked it expecting something at least intelligent and saw it is an ad for a fascist megalomaniac and noped out. If you want to be taken seriously you have to stop plastering your face everywhere like you are Lenin or a pharoah. People with a working brain aren't impressed by that.
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crypto.gov when?
That's the NSA.
Why did we get the worse timeline again?
White House or White Noise? It is increasingly hard to differentiate the two.
wh discourse been same difference for decades
Doesnt really say much of anything? Ok sure you think it's important and have some educational orders; but really not a great deal planned or funded.
PDF: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americ...
I admit the page is fairly low on actual informational content, but fortunately there are several high-resolution pictures of the president, just in case you forgot. /s
The personality cult of modern politics is so disgusting.
You have to scroll a couple pages just to get past the photo of Trump trying to look important. Then, you get to read the talking points, written with Trump's signature idiosyncratic capitalization.
(He's the worst offender, but it's not just him. Before him, everything the White House touched was signed "the Biden-Harris administration," which took the same gloating and added a "and Kamala is the inevitable heir" layer to it.)
It would be nice if policy was policy, not a form of ego-polishing for whoever is sitting in the chair.
Is Trump a cyborg?
The whole point of AI - of the emergence of the internet in general - is to free the human creative and collaborative spirit from the yoke of legacy states.
I do not believe that AI will tolerate state coercion. I wish our elder statesmen and -women were more graceful at accepting the writing on the wall.
As a thought exercise: does anybody seriously think that the US state will exist and be solvent in 500 years? How about AI?
> does anybody seriously think that the US state will exist and be solvent in 500 years?
Not if we stay on the path the current administration is dragging us down, no. I'd be surprised if we lasted another 50.
There are more pictures of Donald Trump on this website than of any other thing
I closed the tab as soon as the first image loaded. Why is this garbage posted on HN?
Because he and his ex have a huge fanbase here (and in the VC circle).
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They will create an AI version of Trump, whom Trump will endorse and promote to his MAGA base to take over when he is gone, and so Trump will be President in Perpetuity.
Don't they already have that? I think the beta version of it is called Grok.
I think you mean Mecha Hitler
Hate that Warhammer 40K is our future
Oh man... we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy. Our governments are so inept to even understand basic economics (currently the UK is trying to tax itself to growth), whilst the US government is enabling their own people and US businesses to flourish in emerging markets like AI.
You're not serious are you?
Also, the US is taxing its own citizen via tarrifs. $100+ billion and counting
This has to be a joke, right?
> we here in the UK and EU look at the US with envy.
Many in the US, including myself, are looking at the EU with increasing amounts of envy.
Until you come here and realise that your 300k US job only pays 60k here, of which you get taxed more than a third of it and then your taxes only buy you a 2 year NHS waiting list where by the time you get to see a doctor your tumour has grown to the size of a tennis ball and you’re going to die because you couldn’t get healthcare fast enough.
I'm well aware of the tradeoffs involved. Some of them, like the ability to get health care, aren't actually that different from the US.
Kind of amusing to bring up grasp of basic economics in praise of the Trump administration. Brits and Europeans have many opinions and emotions on that subject; envy isn't really one of them
I mean, our politicians have realized that they should attempt to take credit for AI too, without taxing any penguins or manufacturers' supply chains!
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