For just over two years, technological leaders on the front line in the development of artificial intelligence had made an unusual request from legislators. They wanted Washington to regulate them.
The technological managers warned the legislators that generative artificial intelligence, which can produce texts and images that imitate human creations, had the potential to interrupt national security and elections and in the end they could eliminate millions of jobs.
Artificial intelligence could go “badly”, Sam Altman, Openi’s CEO, testified to Congress in May 2023. “We want to work with the government to prevent this from happening”.
But from the elections of President Trump, the technological leaders and their companies have changed their melody and in some cases have reversed the course, with bold requests for government to stay off the road, in what has become the strongest push to advance their products.
In recent weeks, Meta, Google, Openai and others have asked the Trump administration to block the laws of the State and to declare that it is legal for them to use copyright protected material to train their models. There are also pressure to use federal data to develop technology, as well as for easy access to energy sources for their requests for calculation. And they asked for tax breaks, subsidies and other incentives.
The turn was enabled by Mr. Trump, who declared that the IA is the most precious weapon of the nation to overcome China in advanced technologies.
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order to restore the rules of security tests for the IAs used by the government. Two days later, he signed another order, soliciting suggestions in the sector to create policy to “support and improve the global domain of AI in America”.
Technological companies “are really encouraged by the Trump Administration and even problems such as security and responsible ia have completely disappeared from their concerns,” said Laura Caroli, senior member at Wadhwani at the center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a non -profit Think Tank. “The only thing that matters is to establish the US leadership in artificial intelligence”
Many experts in artificial intelligence policy fear that this unbridled growth can be accompanied by, among other potential problems, by the rapid spread of political and health disinformation; discrimination through automated screener of financial, work and housing applications; And IT attacks.
The reversal of technological leaders is clear. In September 2023, more than a dozen of them approved the AI regulation in a top of Capitol Hill organized by Senator Chuck Schumer, Democratic Democrat of New York and the leader of the majority at the time. At the meeting, Elon Musk warned “risks of civilizations” placed by the AI
Subsequently, the Biden administration began working with the major artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily test their systems for weaknesses of security and security and imposed the security standards for the government. States like California have introduced legislation to regulate technology with safety standards. And publishers, authors and actors have sued the technological companies for the use of copyright protected material to train their models.
(The New York Times sued Openi and his partner, Microsoft, accusing them of copyright violation regarding the contents of news relating to artificial intelligence systems. Openai and Microsoft have denied these statements.)
But after Trump won the elections in November, the technological companies and their leaders immediately increased their lobbying. Google, Meta and Microsoft have given each one $ 1 million to the inauguration of Mr. Trump, as well as Tim Cook of Altman and Apple. Mark Zuckerberg di Meta organized an inauguration party and met Mr. Trump numerous times. Mr. Musk, who has his artificial intelligence company, Xai, spent almost every day on the side of the president.
In turn, Trump greeted artificial intelligence announcements, including an Openii, Oracle and SoftBank plan to invest $ 100 billion in artificial intelligence center, which are huge buildings full of servers that provide calculation power.
“We must be supported on the future of AI with optimism and hope,” said vice -president JD Vance last week to government officials and technological leaders.
During a top of the AI in Paris last month, Vance also asked for AI “in favor of growth” policies and warned world leaders against “excessive regulation” that could “kill a transformative industry just as he is taking off”.
Now technological companies and other affected by artificial intelligence offer responses to the second executive order of the President, “removing obstacles to American leadership in artificial intelligence”, which has in charge of the development of a policy of AI in favor of growth within 180 days. Hundreds of them presented comments to the National Science Foundation and the Science and Technological Policy Office to influence this policy.
Openi presented 15 pages of comments, asking the Federal Government to prevent states to create laws on artificial intelligence. The company based in San Francisco also invoked Deepseek, a Chinese chatbot created for a small part of the cost of the chatbots developed by the United States, saying that it was an important “caliber of the state of this competition” with China.
If Chinese developers “have free access to data and American companies are left without access to difficulty, the tender for the IA is actually over,” said Openai, asking that the United States government transforms the data to feed its systems.
Many technological companies have also argued that their use of copyright protected works for the training of artificial intelligence models was legal and that the administration should take sides on their side. Openi, Google and Meta have declared to believe they have legal access to copyright protected works such as books, films and art for training.
Meta, which has its own artificial intelligence model, called Llama, pushed the White House to issue an executive order or other action to “clarify that the use of data publicly available to form models is unequivocally fair”.
Google, Meta, Openai and Microsoft said that their use of copyright protected data was legal because the information was transformed into the process of training of their models and was not used to replicate the intellectual property of the rights holders. Actors, authors, musicians and publishers have argued that technological societies should compensate for having obtained and used their works.
Some technological companies have also put pressure on the Trump administration to support the “Open Source” IA, which essentially makes the computer code freely available to be copied, modified and reused.
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has pushed stronger for a political recommendation on open opening, that other artificial intelligence companies, such as anthropic, have described how to increase vulnerability to safety risks. Meta said that open source technology accelerates the development of artificial intelligence and can help start-ups to reach more established companies.
Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley venture capital company with AI’s dozen start-ups, has also asked for the support of open source models, on which many of its companies rely on creating products AI.
And Andreessen Horowitz gave the most severe arguments against the new regulations for the existing laws of AI on safety, protection of consumers and civil rights, said the company.
“Providing damage and punish bad actors, but do not require developers to jump through onerosis looking for regulations based on speculative fear,” said Andreesesen Horowitz in his comments.
Others continued to warn that the IA was to be regulated. Civil rights groups have asked for audits of systems to ensure that they do not discriminate against vulnerable populations in housing and employment decisions.
Artists and publishers said that artificial intelligence companies had to reveal their use of copyright material and asked the White House to reject the topics of the technological industry according to which their unauthorized use of intellectual property to form their models was within the limits of the copyright law. The center for Ai Ai Policy, a group of Think Tank and Lobbying, asked for audit of third -party systems for the vulnerabilities of national security.
“In any other sector, if a product damages or negatively hurt, that project is defective and the same standards should be applied for the IA,” said Kj Bagchi, vice -president of the Center for Civil Rights and Technology, who presented one of the requests.