{"id":473,"date":"2025-07-24T01:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:30:27","slug":"donald-trump-blocks-ai-groups-with-ideological-bias-from-government-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump blocks AI groups with \u2018ideological bias\u2019 from government work \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=406bc127-e1c3-41d5-9e68-b8921856c3c7&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Donald Trump hit out at \u201cwoke, Marxist lunacy\u201d in artificial intelligence models, as he ordered his administration to block companies whose systems exhibit \u201cpartisan bias or ideological agendas\u201d from doing business with the US government.<\/p>\n<p>In an executive order signed on Wednesday, the president urged federal agencies not to procure services that \u201csacrifice truthfulness and accuracy to ideological agendas\u201d, citing instances in which chatbots have allegedly distorted facts in order to satisfy diversity, equity and inclusion policies.<\/p>\n<p>Two separate orders also signed Wednesday mandated\u2009the acceleration of data centre permitting and promoted the export of US technology, in a boost to American companies such as Nvidia and AMD.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech ahead of the signings, Trump vowed that the US government would now \u201cdeal only with AI that pursues truth, fairness and strict impartiality\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>A senior administration official said that the General Service Administration, which oversees government procurement, would draw up the rules to vet government contractors for instances of bias. Trump\u2019s political allies have long accused AI models such as OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and Google\u2019s Gemini of promoting liberal ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Elon Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot, developed by his company xAI, came under fire for providing answers containing antisemitic tropes and praising Adolf Hitler. xAI is among the big AI companies including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to have won lucrative federal contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Some civil society groups have raised concerns about giving the government the power to vet for perceived bias. \u201cThe government should not be acting as a Ministry of AI Truth or insisting that AI models hew to its preferred interpretation of reality,\u201d said Samir Jain, vice-president of policy at the Center for Democracy &amp; Technology.<\/p>\n<p>A policy paper released by the White House on Wednesday also proposed preventing states with \u201cburdensome AI regulations\u201d from receiving federal funding for AI projects.<\/p>\n<p>It included a provision that federal agencies with AI-related funding should \u201cconsider a state\u2019s AI regulatory climate when making funding decisions\u201d in an apparent reference to attempts by states such as New York to police the technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plan also called for a review of Federal Trade Commission investigations begun under the Biden administration that may promote legal theories that \u201cunduly burden AI innovation\u201d. Under former president Joe Biden, the agency probed AI partnerships such as those between Microsoft and OpenAI, and Amazon and Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the plan commits to revive US chip manufacturing, led by a \u201crevamped\u201d Chips Program Office in the Department of Commerce, which was purged by Musk ally Michael Grimes in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his speech at the AI Summit in Washington, Trump emphasised the need for allies to use American chips, rounding on his predecessor for \u201ccrippling\u201d US AI exports with controls his administration has since reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang was in Washington for the event. <\/p>\n<p>Huang has forged a closer relationship with Trump despite criticising US export control policies on advanced AI chips. The tech boss scored a diplomatic win last week when the administration signalled it would allow Nvidia to resume shipments of an AI chip specifically designed for China\u2019s market.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Wednesday echoed Huang\u2019s argument that US AI chip export controls give a leg-up to the likes of China\u2019s Huawei, saying that \u201cnecessary protections\u201d would remain but that \u201cthe greatest threat of all is to forfeit the race and force our partners into rival technology\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One of the executive orders directs the commerce department, secretary of state and Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish an \u201cAmerican AI Export Program\u201d within 90 days, aimed at supporting foreign sales of both hardware and AI models and applications. <\/p>\n<p>It will seek proposals from industry groups to identify \u201cspecific target countries or regional blocs for export engagement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Melissa Heikkil\u00e4\u00a0in London<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Donald #Trump #blocks #groups #ideological #bias #government #work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump hit out at \u201cwoke, Marxist lunacy\u201d in artificial intelligence models, as he ordered his administration to block companies whose systems exhibit \u201cpartisan bias or ideological agendas\u201d from doing business with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[602,599,109,494,600,601,82,603],"class_list":{"0":"post-473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bias","9":"tag-blocks","10":"tag-donald","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-groups","13":"tag-ideological","14":"tag-trump","15":"tag-work"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}