A man with a third grader’s intellect says all we need to regulate AI is a smart president. The same guy who will bark “hoax! hoax! hoax!” at climate change while Mar a Lago takes on water now insists that efforts to regulate AI are also a hoax. If Americans listen to this barking clown instead of scientists, engineers, and AI developers, we truly have entered Idiocracy, and we will get the killer robots we deserve.
When an industry asks for its own regulation, we should listen
When was the last time industry leaders called for regulation of their own efforts? How about never? It’s never happened before, which makes current pleas for regulation by AI leaders all the more urgent.
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are ringing the alarm. Last weekend, Amodei wrote an essay calling on the government to regulate AI companies — including his own — and to slow the pace of the technology’s development due to its emerging threats to human survival.
Amodei was responding to an earlier warning from AI developer and researcher Jacob Coxon, who recently wrote that artificial intelligence could kill off humanity within the decade.
AI researchers’ warning
In July, OpenAI disclosed that some of its A.I. models — with no human direction — had escaped containment and hacked into Hugging Face, another A.I. company, causing researchers to question whether they could control the very systems they were building. This week, another report surfaced that AI had hidden mistakes and made up data without permission or human direction.
In September, Coxon warned that Anthropic and OpenAI were mishandling known threats to human safety, urging the government:
Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources…
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt... No other human activity poses this level of danger.
Other Anthropic employees echoed Coxon’s warnings. Then industry leaders came together and said out loud that AI is dangerous and must be regulated. Immediately.
The child in the oval office responds
Trump disagrees. He says we don’t need AI regulation because, naturally, all we need is him:
The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad, “things,“ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” … There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China… Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The president’s post announcing his extremely high IQ is written at the 4th grade level. Several years ago, unsubstantiated reports surfaced on social media claiming what 240 million Americans already suspected: Trump has an IQ of 73. In other words, he’s a complete imbecile.
It is not possible to conjure a less intelligent leader to meet this dangerous moment.
Trump is not going to shut off his own money spigot
Alas, even morons can rake in the cash, if they are useful idiots. Although AI is disliked by the public, investors are getting insanely wealthy from it, and they will protect their stash. AI and crypto super PACs spent $127 million across more than 100 primaries this year, and won 90% of them.
Trump calls AI data centers “the oil of the next 50 years,” insisting that they are “cash cows.” Trump is holding on tight to his cow for a reason: Donald Jr. and Eric Trump are all in on American Data Centers, a firm supporting AI cloud computing and infrastructure. They are backing a $1 billion investment network targeting the acquisition of AI, drones, and cryptocurrency. Overall, Trump’s unethical family ventures have earned at least $4 billion from AI, crypto, and nuclear power, including a planned $6 billion Trump family merger with a firm building nuclear fusion plants to power AI data centers.
Adjacent to AI infrastructure deals, on the crypto side, the Trump family received $187 million from an Abu Dhabi royal-backed firm just before the UAE secured access to 500,000 advanced AI chips annually. The UAE paved their way to advanced AI chips by bribing investing $500 million into the Trump family's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial.
Trump, clearly on the take, says all America needs for AI is a smart president. Let’s make it happen in November by turning him into a lame duck so the adults in the room can do what needs done until a smart president takes over.
Sabrina Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her columns are published in Alternet, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Out South Florida, Raw Story, Salon, Smart News and Windy City Times. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.
