Many tech giants are wary of President Trump's new AI decree

(Dan Tri) - President Donald Trump has just signed a series of executive orders on artificial intelligence (AI), including a controversial directive.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on AI on July 23 (Photo: Nikhinson).

The move is creating a new legal hurdle for tech companies looking to sell AI products to governments , forcing them to prove that their chatbots are not “influenced” by social ideologies.

Meanwhile, President Trump's AI plan is said to be aimed at countering China's AI dominance and reinforcing American values ​​by requiring leading AI providers like Google (with its Gemini chatbot) or Microsoft (with Copilot) to disclose the internal policies guiding their chatbots, and self-censor to maintain government contracts.

"Woke" AI or Discriminatory AI?

The White House executive order targets efforts by tech companies to incorporate concepts like critical race theory, sexism, unconscious bias, intersectionality and systemic racism into AI models.

Modeling the behavior of large language models (LLMs) is a major challenge.

LLMs are trained on massive amounts of data from the Internet, reflecting all the biases and inconsistencies in human language.

“This is going to be incredibly difficult for tech companies to comply with,” said Jim Secreto, a former Biden administration official. “Large language models reflect the data they’re trained on, including all the inconsistencies and biases in human language.”

Soft censorship or hard control?

President Trump's executive order targeting AI companies demonstrates the neutrality between ideology and technology.

“The presidential administration is taking a softer but still coercive approach by using federal contracts as leverage. This creates intense pressure on companies to self-censor to stay in the good graces of the government and maintain cash flow,” Secreto explained.

However, Neil Chilson, a former senior technology expert at the Republican Federal Trade Commission, said the order was "fairly mild" and not difficult to comply with.

He stressed that President Trump's executive order does not require tech companies to ban specific AI content, but only requires developers not to intentionally encode partisan or ideological judgments.

Response from tech giants

So far, big tech companies have remained cautious.

OpenAI said it is awaiting more detailed guidance but believes ChatGPT's efforts to achieve its goals have put the technology in line with the order's requirements.

Microsoft, a key provider of services to the federal government, declined to comment.

Elon Musk's xAI issued a statement praising President Trump's AI announcement as a "positive step forward," but did not answer a question about how Grok would be affected.

Anthropic, Google, Meta and Palantir did not respond to requests for comment.

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