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This government has handed China the keys on everything, especially tech R&D. With Trump shunning the opportunity for expanded minds from here and elsewhere to satisfy Red Hats and China opening their arms, it's a race to the bottom for the US.

“If your friends all jumped off a bridge would you jump” was supposed to be a warning

What’s wrong Adam, no other lobbyists paying well enough so you gotta hop on the AI hype train?

Let them win. AI IS THOUGHT CONTROL. Just read an article Women need more AI. Because thinking for ourselves is yet again Bad. Fuck AI.

Hey, shut up

dumb

Leading smart and strong implies that the current administration has any of the smarts needed to make that happen. Extremely doubtful.

I feel that a skynet from China, Russia or the US will still be skynet

We simply can't allow a Plagiarism Machine gap.

“They’re using it to build a surveillance state so powerful that it’s tough to comprehend.” I don’t completely disagree. But respectfully: in this year 2025, in the USA, can you honestly say we’re not?

AI is advancing every corporate CEO's wet dream of having zero paid employees below the top-tier

we need to continue to innovate and come up with better ideas. this is what makes America great. whtwnd.com/philphi.bsky...

Remember when #Republicans blocked the #Obama solar panel initiative and #China cornered the solar panel market using our technology...

Why is important that the US "beats" China at *anything*? Is it about future wars for resources and habitable land due to climate change? Why not set more important goals like feeding, housing, and medically caring for all US citizens? Is that the main goal of AI/AGI? It should be

Appreciate the urgency, Congressman. AI models are changing the game. Recently read Katzke & Futerman's “Manhattan Trap”: a zero-sum race can spike great-power conflict and safety risk. How do we lead fast and craft guardrails/international norms so democracies like ours win without losing control?

Dang a substack? about AI? You really are grasping for new purpose huh?

Rushing headlong down the same legitimately dangerous paths because different political ideologies might get there 1st isn't "leadership," dude. Unless they're redesigned from the ground up, you're still talking about tools that do massive environmental damage & facilitate fascist authoritarian aims

Something more to consider: ai-2027.com/race

don’t we need intelligence before we can make it artificially

In cybersecurity I use AI on a daily basis.

AI is a product, it's creators profit seeking. They're not out 2 save humanity. The tech money ppl are determined 2accelerate its immersion in our culture, inure the public, and sow discord. Malign actors r salivating. It is consequential in almost every facet of culture. It needs 2b regulated.

It's like the new moon race only different

China is filling every void US politicians are creating because they’re too busy complaining about the country on media outlets to do anything substantial. We are being outsmarted in every way possible by China.

It's a misnomer to call it artificial intelligence. That's marketing. It's like saying auto-correct is artificial intelligence. And LLM's will never become AI.

And they should be starting small and work up not big they're trying to tell it too fast too big more is not always better

I'm old enough to remember the race to space...the race to stop the spread of communism. It isn't who's first, it's who's best. Ask Apple, Microsoft, etc. REGULATE TECH NOW!

This. Exactly. It's as if you want to take a vote to accept whether gravity exists

AI use massive amounts of power. From where will this power come from? Is it even worth using AI if the power it consumes, cause pollution and damage to the environment?

Counterpoint: (fart noise)

It’s always extremely rich how all politicians, left or right, fall in line for this shit constantly. You clowns are all bought out by tech companies

lol bruh this is so embarrassing what the hell are you even doing

"Why Leatherface Needs to Lead on AI—Before Harry & Marv from Home Alone Do"

You’re blunt but provide no evidence of this.

So the first round of AI will use up all available electricity and we will fire up nuclear and coal to power the beast. Trump and the tech bros just sold tech out to Qatar cause they will power it. AI is something that will screw us, like social media and where fools rush in

Cuz china and Russia don't care about its people and want their flock to harvest. Get real man, stop scooping low as that cuban billionaire. There are other technologies that can dominate or level the playing field rather than AI. - quantum/fusion/H2O

We need universal basic income. Fears of job loss are behind a lot of the lack of support of AI; that and the fact it used all our work in its training and none of us were compensated for it.

Let's be blunt. You know as much about AI in advanced technology as my pet cat. You are simply repeating stuff that you have heard by tech boosters and tech CEOs.

Why? Everyone who makes that claim fails to explain why. What is the connection between being the leader globally in AI and the health and welfare of the American people? We have rapacious extractive tech companies that no one in their right mind would trust and you want to give them more power?

I have seminal patents on decentralized AI algorithms for tactical platforms, particularly for air defense. U.S. companies that cite my patents are making merely incremental improvements, where their Chinese counterparts are clearly outpacing American innovation.

America is failing because Big Tech sabotaged the US patent system. Now Chinese companies exploit post-grant procedures to invalidate US patents and bankrupt US companies. In AI, China has 37,000 patent grants, whereas US companies have only 6000.

If this is a question of national security, the government should do it. AI in the marketplace is a cesspool od scamware

I don’t understand why we’re competing with each other when it’s all said and done. It will be humans against AI when and if things go wrong.

AI will be used to our detriment without serious ethical rules. How likely is that to happen? 🤔

We cannot possibly lead smart and strong with this administration. They are reactive not proactive which is obvious with everything they are doing. They are ill-prepared to run a country let alone tackle AI.

Horseshit. GenAI is snake oil and the government should avoid getting sucked into that tarpit at all costs.

Everything you accuse China of has already been done and I sbeing done by the US. Targeting dissidents, mass surveillance, etc. Backing dictators and genocides. So please drop the pretense of the US being virtuous. All of this has been happening for years with or without AI or whatever.

Counterpoint: Yes We Can Afford To Flinch

Repeat then repeat then repeat.

If China and Russia are in a race to see who can shoot themselves in the head first, I say we leave them to it.

"China is building a surveillance state, this is why we must allow Palantir to build a surveillance state" fuck tou

love you Adam...the answer is no...the people in charge of AI in the US are not "smart and strong" they cannot be trusted with AI. This is worse than the Manhattan Project, which at least was led by men who had a smidgen of morality. Sociopaths are in charge now.

Let’s be blunt. If we’re going to replace human workers with inferior machines that cannot think, we need to blindly not consider the implications for this dumbing of our collective world. Our only option is to boldly push ahead with this stupidity, regardless of consequence. After all, CHINA!!!

Let them; AI research is incredibly expensive and built on the predicate that IP is irrelevant. If they come up with something good we'll just copy it (and, as Deepseek already proved, vice versa).

Unfortunately, your whole argument falls apart with the broad argument that we must harness AI before the anti-democratic authoritarian States do. You, like so many others, seem to be under the mistaken impression that the US, under Trump and his cabal, isn't now ONE of those authoritarian regimes.

Shut the fuck up, you useless fucking dork. Fucking ban AI before doing any kind of investing in it whatsoever. Fuck that useless plagiarizing slop.

WE MUST LEAD THE WORLD ON BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES NO MATTER THE COST! Let's be blunt... Think before you leap. Saying we have to lead in something that is looking like the boondoggle of the century is idiotic reactionary thinking.

Congress especially the Democrats have done next to nothing to prepare Americans for what is to come, when businesses start replacing more and more American workers for AI. What jobs will these Americans take. If you add robotic into the mix there will be very few jobs that are AI resistant.

You’re right, we should start bombing all AI datacenters worldwide, no matter where they reside. Get back to an even playing field. You grifter fuck.

The toothpaste is out of the tube with regards to AI. No point in debating it. We have to win the race, but that doesn't mean we can't look to put measures in place where it doesn't cause permanent damage either.

Or, we could let China and Russia completely fuck themselves over with this destructive technology, not join them in poisoning the minds of generations, and reap the benefits of living in a society where people are still capable of processing information.

Nonsense. AI is nonsense.

A pure competitive context is insufficient. We have to support detailed limits, restrictions, and rules. There should be consequences for failure to follow responsibly. We have to lead not blindly dive into the unregulated market.

I suppose we should slurp up the world's water and increase consumer energy costs for everyone else to do it! You have nothing to drink, the fields are barren, the power is out again because our deregulated mini-nuclear power plants went into meltdown, but hey we have 'puters doing security!

On top of all Donvicts evil, his incompetence and lack of intelligent leadership is also a serious problem. Just look at his performance at the G7 Summit. He came across like a petulant fourth grader, got mad and left like a petulant fourth grader. “ Mommy all the guys at school r making fun of me.”

Sounds like a race to be first to commit suicide

It needs to be strongly regulated. But yes the world advances as Trump removes sciences.. facts..reality.

Best response here. I'd also add that we don't have AI - we have LLM's that do a great job of sifting through a massive amount of data and returning the best guess of what the user wants in a natural language format. People hear AI, and they get expectations that are nowhere near reality.

Fascinating. I’ve never seen someone manage to non-ironically introduce *both* the mineshaft gap *and* the emperor’s new clothes in the same essay.

No.

Oh no, not an AI Gap!

Quite frankly I’d prefer to see a real democracy develop AI (Europe/Canada/Australia/New Zealand). All three Superpowers abuse human rights & invade privacy (that’s why I use no Meta products at all). They are monopolies that spy on all of us. I DON’T TRUST ANY SUPERPOWERS!

There is no good way for Bluesky to deal with them without censorship. The most any user can do is block or ignore them. I recommend the latter. But you are correct that despite the trolls and bots conversation is better here by far… for now anyway.

We can't let AI runaway unregulated like we did with Social Media. AI can't be owned and controled by a few wealthy people.

Agreed! If there was ever a time where the technology stakes were higher it was the Manhattan Project during WW2. This is an escalating crisis that at some point will result in cyber attacks and control of systems that we’re not prepared for. It could be massive China could win AI will be decisive

LOL. Russia isn’t dominating anything. Except low life expectancy.

Ai is already here & bad actors already use it. Regulating Ai will never happen when tech bros can donate millions to politicians. We need to teach classes to educate kids on how to recognize propaganda. Required all 4 yrs: Civics Propaganda Life Skills Harsh Truth History Math Science Grammar

“Fighting the MAGA brain worms…” Not sure if it was MAGA worms, but you already lost the fight and your brain has been taken.

“I’m a very smart boy”, Adam says as he shits into his own hands again

I love how humans make up excuses and rationalize racing to end humanity and true human intelligence. 💀 Silly humans. Enjoy the race in the context of mass extinction and climate change induced flooding and extreme disaster events. 😂

Respectfully, fuck off with this.

Yup. Agreed. But. It’s AI now. In lockdown it was Indian doing 3 jobs in working from home time. Before that it was jobs outsourced to India Pakistan China. There’s always something

It will be impossible with the brain drain occurring in America.

NOt without regulations and protections!

AI literally makes people stupider. Just do the fucking work.

Russia has no ai

I’m sorry, we’re too busy putting giant gas station flag poles up at the White House and deporting any non-whites we can get our hands on.

you kinda forgot to mention why the us (or the west or whoever else) »leading« in ai will change anything about what china or russia are doing. because what ai is not going to do is to stop the spread of misinformation.

oh no. we can't let them be the kings of the toilet

Let me know when the orcas can have a go at it

Why does AI matter at all? The most common answer is "increased productivity" but c'mon. We're way too productive alread From what I see, it mostly just enables more commerce We have enough commerce

Yes. Not a fan of the anti-AI Luddites on the left. I would like the US to pummel China when it comes to AI advancement. ...with regulations!!!

Well this administration is going backwards making Americans less safe & vulnerable! We are in big trouble!

But what do we do about its impact on the environment and climate change I refuse to use it because of that

Threat-assessment, Adam. Let the AI bros do their thing, but they make sure they are carbon-fucking-neutral while doing it.

Have you seen what Trump's been cutting? Take years of extra funds to get back to where we were on Jan 20. I'm comp neuro - neural networks. Cuts I'm aware of include in AI, computational statistics, structural eng, et al. Over 40M cut I know personally. We've already lost. It's going to hurt!

World leadership in anything is an anathema to the current administration.

Currently Ukraine leads the world in AI. They have weaponized it with the use of AI with remote drone technology. This is revolutionizing war making 20th century war machines obsolete.

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Please stop posting your humiliation fetish.

No offense. I would prefer Europe to have it first.

The thing about the Chinese is that we won't know they're winning until it's too late.

Russia has always been ahead in mind control and propaganda, why let them be head in technologies.

Honest question -- why do we have to lead? What is the danger? Are they worried about China conquering the US with cornucopiae machines, etc? I don't get it. Why does it matter?

Today's AI does far more than writing emails. Well, Apple's doesn't. America risks losing control over everything from infrastructure to elections...allowing deadlier cyberwarfare and even existential catastrophe from runaway AI. Remember Sputnik? China’s DeepSeek is today’s AI Sputnik moment.

There will be another answer for this in two weeks.

"Let's be blunt" well you're definitely not the sharpest tool in the shed, that's for sure

This reads like it was written by a bigtech lobbying group. Also, why so much concern re China potentially using AI for bad purposes when the US government is doing that right now? See termination of research grants, mass firings, censorship of anything “woke” etc all driven by AI.

We’re too busy honoring Confederate Generals to do anything important.