Public comments to White House on AI policy touch on copyright, tariffs
Individuals, industrial groups and local authorities have submitted more than 10,000 comments to the White House about the Work-in-Progress National AI policy, also known as the AI action plan. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Thursday published The text of the submissions in a PDF about 18,480 pages.
The comments that touch on topics ranging from copyright to the environmental damage of AI data centers, as President Donald Trump and allies, again defend the AI priorities of the US government.
In January, President Trump deployed the AI -Executive Order of former President Joe Biden, who had instructed the National Institute of Standards and Technology to author support that helps companies to identify and correct errors in models, including prejudices. Critics affiliated with Trump claimed that the reporting requirements of the order were heavy and effectively compelling companies to make their trade secrets known.
Shortly after the withdrawal of the AI executive order, Trump signed an order in which federal agencies were instructed to promote the development of AI “free of ideological bias” that promotes “human flourishing, economic competitiveness and national security.” It is important that the order of Trump did not report the fight against AI discrimination, which was an important principle of Biden’s initiative.
Comments submitted to the White House make clear what is at stake in the AI race.
A number of commentators claimed that AI is exploited, in one word, trained in the works of creatives that are not compensated for their involuntary contributions and have requested the Trump administration to strengthen copyright regulation. On the other hand, commentators such as VC company Andreessen Horowitz accused legal hedges of setting up roadblocks to AI development.
Various AI companies, including Google and OpenAi, have also insisted on more friendly rules on AI training in previous comments about the AI action plan.
Voices from organizations such as Americans for Welfare, the Future of Life Institute and the American Academy of Nursing emphasized the importance of investments in research at a time when the federal government reduces scientific subsidies. Ai -experts Have criticized the recent cuts of the Trump administration on scientific subsidy, and in particular reductions defended by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
Some commentators on the AI action plan focused on the distant rates of the Trump government for foreign goods, which suggests that they can harm domestic AI efforts. The Data Center Coalition, a trading association that represents the data iner sector, says that the rates on infrastructure components “American AI investments” will limit and delay “. Elsewhere, the Information Technology Industry Council, a interest group of which the members of Amazon, who ‘Targe’s industry are, urge’, insist ‘ escalating trade wars that harm consumers’.
Only a handful of reactions called ‘AI -censorship’, a subject of the Spirit for many of the close confidants of Trump. Elon Musk and Crypto and AI “Tsar” David Sacks have claimed that popular chatbots -censor conservative points of view, with bags pick Chatgpt in particular as untresite about politically sensitive topics.
In reality, bias in AI is a persistent technical problem. Musk’s AI company, Xai, has difficulty creating a chatbot that does not endorse any political views on others.
President Trump has made the efforts in recent months to collect an AI policy team.
In March, the Senate confirmed Trump’s choice for director of the OSTP, Michael Kratsios, who focused on the AI policy in the OSTP during the first term of Trump. Towards the end of last year, Trump called former VC Sriram Krishnan as a senior policy advisor of the White House for AI.
