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Politics in AI: A Reporter's Dispatch from the FrontlineAmerica: Still the last great hope for Ai freedom. By Charlie G. Peterson IV, 8/12/2025 Prepared 11 August 2025. This report is grounded in verified sources and steeped in lived detail. It takes you from chip factories to parliamentary chambers, weaving the grit of today into the forecasts for tomorrow. All quotes are drawn from published statements and news reports. Prologue: The hum of machines and the weight of decisions On a muggy summer morning in Santa Clara the air in Nvidia's headquarters carries the sterile, ozone-tinted smell of a clean room. Engineers shuttle between assembly lines where next-generation chips are etched under microscopes. In a glass-walled boardroom upstairs, executives are on a video call with officials in Washington. President Donald Trump, a former businessman who still relishes the art of the deal, leans into the camera and talks about letting Nvidia sell a scaled-down version of its Blackwell chips to China. He speaks bluntly, saying the new chips will have only “30 to 50% less computing power” and calling the current H20 model “obsolete”[1]. He jokes that he wants a bigger slice of the revenue, "maybe 20%" if he approves the sale[2]. This tableau, the sanitized environment of a chip lab contrasted with the rough cut of political bargaining, captures the tension of our moment. Artificial intelligence, once a subject of academic journals and science fiction, has become a lever of national power. Policies set by Washington, Brussels and Beijing today will ripple through factories, code repositories and communities tomorrow. This report unpacks those policies, contrasts the United States' brash deregulation with Europe's risk-averse framework and China's state-centric approach, and argues that the U.S., despite its flaws, remains the last great hope for AI freedom. |
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Capitol Hill’s Ai Paradox: How lawmakers who shun tools are shaping rules they barely graspOn the surface Capitol Hill debates federal Ai oversight with passion yet even today some of the most powerful figures refuse to use the very tools they seek to regulate. That gap between fear and policy has set the stage for a regulatory showdown with real consequences for states, industry, and citizens alike. By Grayson Patrick Trent, 7/13/2025 Capitol Hill has become a study in contradictions when it comes to Ai. On one hand the debate over federal oversight grows more urgent by the week, but on the other some of the nation’s most powerful lawmakers still refuse even to log in. “I don’t trust it, I don’t like it, I don’t want it being trained on any of the information I might give it,” Missouri Senator Josh Hawley told Business Insider when asked why he has never once used ChatGPT or Grok (Business Insider). In the same interview, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren shrugged off the idea of Ai assistance, quipping “I might as well go out on the street and ask a random person a question and see what words they come up with” rather than risk a “hallucination” from a large language model (Business Insider). The Electricity of Cognition - What If America Made ChatGPT Free for Everyone?One country floated free Ai access. What happens when cognition becomes a public utility—and the gatekeepers lose control? By Robert G. Jordan, 5/27/2025 It wasn’t a trial. It wasn’t a demo. Reports say the UAE gave its citizens full, free access to ChatGPT Plus. No throttled features. No paywall. Just open access to one of the most advanced reasoning engines on the planet. OpenAI hasn’t confirmed it. Maybe it’s real, maybe it’s national branding theater. Doesn’t matter. The idea already did its job. Because now we’re asking the question: What if a country really did this? What if access to Ai wasn’t a product, but a right? And what if that country was us? This isn’t a thought experiment. It’s a budget line. Copyright and the Machine: Who Owns the Mind That Remembers Everything?Charlie G. Peterson, IV explores the 2025 U.S. Copyright Office’s report on Ai training, revealing a legal and philosophical standoff between memory, ownership, and the future of creative labor. by Charlie G. Peterson, IV, 5/12/2025 In May of 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a document that reads less like a regulatory filing and more like a declaration of cultural triage. Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 3 isn’t just a legal breakdown. It’s a ledger of tension between the rights of the human past and the logic of the machine future. Generative Ai doesn’t dream on its own. It trains. It consumes. It remembers. But what it remembers—novels, photographs, symphonies, spreadsheets—often belongs to someone. And the question no one wants to answer directly is this: does training a machine on copyrighted work count as copying? The Office doesn’t settle that debate. Instead, it dissects it. |
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The State of Fear Campaign: How Ai "Doomerism" Is the Conversation And Business ModelA new crisis playbook is underway - engineered fear, institutional gain, and a long-termist agenda wrapped in Ai safety rhetoric. By Robert G Jordan, 6/4/2025 The halls of Capitol Hill echo with alarms that sound less like public policy debate and more like a trailer for the latest techno-thriller. Staffers compare notes on “unaligned super-intelligence,” lobbyists unwrap slides that link large language models to bioterror labs, and reporters polish punchlines about the end of work. The message is clear: Ai could finish us, unless governments clamp down hard and fast. It is a mood many scholars now label doomerism, the conviction that a technology is likely to annihilate humanity unless extraordinary restrictions are imposed in advance. JD Vance’s Paris Keynote: American Intelligence for All MankindLeading the Future: America’s Ai Innovation Powers the World By Gary Stringfellow Locke, 2/14/2025 The U.S. Approach to Ai: Innovation Over RegulationThe future of Ai will not be shaped by global consensus, nor will it be held back by those who fear its power. The United States does not ask permission to innovate. It builds. It leads. It moves forward while others hesitate. Vice President JD Vance made this position unmistakably clear at the Paris Ai Summit. America will not allow excessive regulation to stifle progress. It will not allow ideological forces to distort intelligence. It will not allow hostile actors to wield Ai as a weapon against freedom. Anthropic Flags Commercial ‘Influence-as-a-Service’ Network, Underscoring New Election-Year RisksAnthropic’s takedown of an Ai-run persuasion network signals that political manipulation is becoming a rentable cloud service just as major democracies head into election season. by Grayson Patrick Trent, 4/30/2025 SAN FRANCISCO—An Anthropic security team has shut down what it calls the first documented “influence-as-a-service” business built on a large language model, a discovery that analysts say lowers the price of political manipulation and elevates the stakes for the 2025–26 election cycle. (Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude \ Anthropic) In a report released last week, the company said a single operator used its Claude system to choreograph more than 100 fake accounts on X and Facebook, each programmed with its own political backstory and vernacular. Claude generated posts in several languages, decided when to comment or stay silent, and guided the bots’ likes and shares to steer debate in line with paying clients’ goals. The network interacted with “tens of thousands” of real users but avoided viral spikes that might draw attention, Anthropic said. (Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude \ Anthropic) The episode illustrates how advanced language models can automate not only content creation but also the tactical rhythms once handled by human propagandists. “Users are starting to employ frontier models to semi-autonomously orchestrate complex abuse systems,” Anthropic wrote, warning that more capable agent software could widen the threat. (Detecting and Countering Malicious Uses of Claude \ Anthropic) |
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By Charlie G. Peterson, IV, 5/6/2025 Most of the noise around Ai is still centered on fear, control, or confusion. Politicians argue. Tech giants posture. Consultants promise clarity. Meanwhile, something less dramatic and more meaningful has already started. Not in Silicon Valley or Davos, but inside state agencies, federal departments, and legacy government systems. What’s unfolding is not a pilot program or a proof of concept. It's a rebuild. The engine of government, long gummed up with forms and meetings, is starting to run differently. Ai isn’t knocking at the door. It’s already working the front desk, the loading dock, and the field reports. Here are five examples showing how. Politics in the Ai Age: A Glimpse into Our New RealityPolitics and Our New Age of Ai Conversation: How Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Public Discourse and Civic Responsibility By Charlie G. Peterson, IV, 4/8/2025 Campaigns once depended on flyers, radio shows, and the nightly news,” says a longtime local editor. “Now they rely on bots and algorithmic scripts to shape public perception.” That is the core insight from our newest deep dive into how artificial intelligence is reshaping elections, lawmaking, and everyday discussions about policy. Our report, “Politics and Our New Age of Ai Conversation: How Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Public Discourse and Responsibility,” highlights the enormous impact of code-based messaging on our sense of truth and civic engagement. The report explores three key areas: |
