President Trump Signs Executive Order Combating “Marxist Lunacy” In AI Models

The days of “woke” AI may soon come to an end.

On Wednesday, President Trump gave a speech at the AI summit at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington,

During his speech, Trump laid out the blueprint to make America’s AI the most dominant in the world.

He also addressed concerns of AI being “woke” and shared that the days of Marxist AI models will soon end.

After his speech, he signed three executive orders.

Take a look:

🚨BREAKING: Trump signs an Executive Order making sure there is NO WOKE AI but ACCURATE AI. The order makes sure that AI models are IDEOLOGICALLY NEUTRAL and don't promote Critical Race Theory or other damaging ideologies. 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/57G9ptuvCS

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Wired had more details to report on Trump’s executive order:

PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCED that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “common sense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of copyrighted material used in training frontier models. “You can’t be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you’ve read or studied, you’re supposed to pay for,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but just can’t do it— because it’s not doable.”

The president also doubled down on his anti-woke rhetoric in his speech. “We are getting rid of woke,” he said on Wednesday. “The American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models.”

The remarks came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast and the Hill & Valley Forum. White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks, one of the podcast’s cohosts, has been instrumental in shaping the Trump Administration’s approach to artificial intelligence policy.

Since the AI boom began in 2022, tech companies have been locked in a series of major legal battles with publishers, record labels, media companies, individual artists, and other rightsholders over the legality of training their AI tools on copyrighted material without permission or compensation. Earlier this week, senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduced a bill that seeks to bar AI companies from training on copyrighted works without permission; Trump’s remarks suggest the White House does not support this approach.

In a wide-ranging AI Action Plan released this morning, the Trump Administration outlined over 90 policy recommendations intended to ensure that the United States wins what Sacks calls the “AI race” against China.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "The American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in their AI models — and neither do other countries."

"From now on, the U.S. government will deal only with AI that pursues truth, fairness, and strict impartiality."

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The Guardian reported more details on Trump’s executive orders on AI:

In a rambling set of remarks at an AI summit at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington on Wednesday, Donald Trump just told assembled industry leaders that he wants them to “change the name” of artificial intelligence and that they should not be forced to pay the authors of articles or books they use to train their large language models.

The subject of the summit, Trump said at the start of his remarks, was “the greatest power of them all, the brain power”.

He went on to boast, as he does at political rallies, about the scale of his victory in the 2024 presidential election, saying that he won by “millions and millions of votes” (it was 2 million), and that he won far more “districts as they would call them” (he meant counties) than Kamala Harris.

“Around the globe, everybody is talking about artificial intelligence,” Trump said, before veering away from his prepared remarks to say: “Artificial – I can’t stand it. I don’t even like the name, you know I don’t like anything that’s artificial. So could we straighten that out please? We should change the name.”

As some in the crowd laughed, Trump added: “I actually mean that. I don’t like the name artificial, because it’s not artificial, it’s genius, it’s pure genius.”

Given that one of Trump’s first acts in office was to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, he might indeed mean it.

The president then called for what he called “a commonsense application of artificial and intellectual property rules”. Trump appeared to have accidentally added the word “artificial” to his prepared remarks.

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“It’s so important,” the president continued. “You can’t be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you’ve read or studied, you’re supposed to pay for.”

Watch Trump’s full remarks below:

WATCH LIVE: Trump unveils blueprint for American domination in AI https://t.co/LpJSMbPjLM

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