🤖Trump signs AI orders giving Silicon Valley deregulation wins
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President Donald Trump announced his AI Action Plan on July 23, 2025, signing three executive orders to accelerate U.S. AI leadership, ease tech exports, expand data infrastructure, and ban “woke” AI in federal contracts. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy processed 8,755 public comments by the March 15 deadline, but critics say the final plan prioritizes Big Tech interests over consumer safeguards and environmental concerns.
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- <ul><li><strong>Corporate capture of AI policy prioritizes Silicon Valley profits over consumer protection and safety oversight</strong>: Tech companies successfully lobbied for deregulation while 8
- 755 public comments demanding stronger safeguards got ignored in final policy. The railroad industry achieved similar regulatory capture during the Gilded Age
- writing their own safety rules while accidents killed thousands of passengers and workers.</li><li><strong>Environmental review elimination for data centers creates 50% electricity demand increases that ratepayers cannot escape</strong>: Fast-tracked AI infrastructure construction bypasses climate impact assessment while local communities absorb massive energy costs through higher utility bills. Nuclear power expansion in the 1970s used identical tactics
- rushing reactor construction without environmental review that later required taxpayer-funded cleanup of contaminated sites.</li><li><strong>Job automation accelerates without worker protection when AI deployment serves corporate efficiency over employment stability</strong>: Finance and manufacturing sectors face massive job displacement while AI Action Plan provides zero retraining or transition assistance. Similar technological disruption during industrialization created social upheaval when governments prioritized capital investment over displaced workers
- leading to labor violence and political instability.</li><li><strong>Export control loosening compromises national security when American AI technology flows to foreign competitors</strong>: Relaxed restrictions help tech companies access global markets while potentially transferring strategic capabilities to rival nations. Cold War export controls on computer technology prevented Soviet military advancement
- but current AI deregulation abandons this strategic advantage for corporate short-term profits.</li></ul>
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Why This Matters
Your privacy:
The plan loosens export rules on AI data—submit comments to OSTP by the next notice in spring 2026 to demand stronger data protections.
Your jobs:
Expanded AI infrastructure could automate roles in finance and manufacturing—ask your representative to fund AI-reskilling grants before Congress recesses in August.
Your energy bills:
Fast-tracked data centers may boost local electricity demand by up to 50% by 2026—attend your state public utility commission’s permit hearings this month to push for environmental reviews.
Your civic power:
Citizens sent 8,755 comments on the draft plan—email OSTP@whitehouse.gov today or call your senators to shape the final rules.
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