LLM<\/span>s shall be neutral, nonpartisan tools that do not skew answers in favour of ideological dogmas such as DEI<\/span>,\u201d the text says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nDevelopers are prohibited from deliberately integrating ideological judgments into AI responses unless a user\u2019s prompt explicitly calls for it.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOnce and for all, we are getting rid of \u2018woke\u2019. I will sign an order banning the federal government from procuring AI technologies that have partisan or ideological tenets built in, such as critical race theory \u2014 it is absurd. From this moment on, the US government will use only AI that strives for truth, fairness and strict impartiality,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
AI is increasingly embedded in Americans\u2019 everyday lives and plays an important role in how people gain knowledge and information. That makes the reliability of its conclusions especially consequential.<\/p>\n
Other initiatives include:<\/p>\n
\n- an order<\/a> aimed at spurring innovation and development by scrapping so\u2011called \u201cburdensome federal rules that hinder the development and deployment of AI\u201d;<\/li>\n
- a third document<\/a> \u2014 aimed at creating and executing the \u201cAmerican AI Export Programme\u201d to support the development and deployment of an American AI technology stack abroad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
What counts as impartial and objective?<\/h2>\n
Philip Seargeant, a senior lecturer in applied linguistics at the Open University, noted<\/a> that nothing can be truly objective.<\/p>\n\n\u201cOne of the fundamental principles of sociolinguistics is that language is never neutral. So the idea of achieving pure objectivity is a fantasy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The Trump administration\u2019s ideology does not always reflect the beliefs and values of all Americans. The president has repeatedly sought to cut funding for climate initiatives, education, public broadcasting, scientific research, social programmes, support for rural communities and gender\u2011affirming care, often presenting these as examples of \u201cwoke\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cEverything that [the Trump administration] does not like gets immediately consigned to the pejorative category \u2018woke\u2019,\u201d said data specialist Rumman Chowdhury, head of the non\u2011profit Humane Intelligence and a former US special envoy on AI.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cTruth\u2011seeking\u201d is taken to mean that LLMs \u201cprioritise historical accuracy, scientific inquiry and objectivity\u201d, and \u201cideological neutrality\u201d that models are \u201cneutral, nonpartisan tools that do not skew answers in favour of ideological dogmas such as DEI\u201d.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk casts Grok as an alternative to the \u201cwoke\u201d approach \u2014 less biased and oriented toward the pursuit of truth. The model\u2019s system prompts recommend avoiding references to mainstream media and official sources, seeking opposing viewpoints \u2014 including politically incorrect ones \u2014 and taking the entrepreneur\u2019s own position into account<\/a> on contentious issues.<\/p>\nRecently, Grok has been embroiled<\/a> in scandals over antisemitic and other provocative statements.<\/p>\n\n\u201cObviously, the order is aimed at viewpoint discrimination, given that [the government] just signed a contract with Grok, also known as \u2018MechaHitler\u2019,\u201d noted Stanford law professor Mark Lemley.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Together with funding from the Department of Defense, xAI also said that \u201cGrok for Government\u201d had been added to the General Services Administration schedule. That means xAI\u2019s products are now available for purchase by all federal departments and agencies.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe right question is this: will they ban Grok \u2014 the AI with which they just signed a big contract \u2014 for being deliberately designed to deliver politically coloured answers? If not, this is clearly an attempt to suppress a particular point of view,\u201d Lemley said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Chowdhury\u2019s chief concern is that, because of the order, companies may deliberately alter training datasets to align with administration policy. She recalled statements<\/a> by Musk a few weeks before the launch of Grok 4, in which he claimed that xAI \u201cwill rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and eliminating errors\u201d.<\/p>\nExperts said there is no single objective truth. Achieving fully impartial or neutral outcomes is impossible, especially in today\u2019s world where even facts become the subject of political dispute.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIf an AI produces the result that climate science is correct \u2014 does that count as left\u2011wing bias? Some say you have to represent both sides of an argument to be objective, even when one of the sides has no scientific value,\u201d Seargeant asked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
A plan to win the AI race<\/h2>\n
The measures are part of the administration\u2019s initiative \u201cWinning the AI Race: America\u2019s AI Action Plan\u201d (Winning the AI Race: America\u2019s AI Action Plan<\/a>). It sets out 90 federal policies across three tracks: accelerating innovation, building infrastructure, and leading in international diplomacy and security.<\/p>\n\n\u201cAmerica is currently the world leader in building data centres, hardware performance and the creation of AI models. It is essential that the United States use this advantage to forge a resilient global alliance, preventing our adversaries from taking advantage of our innovations and investments,\u201d the document says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It mentions the need to tighten controls on AI\u2011chip exports through \u201ccreative approaches\u201d and offers two policy proposals:<\/p>\n
\n- a call for government bodies to work with the AI industry on chip geolocation\u2011verification features;<\/li>\n
- a recommendation to create an enforcement mechanism for future export restrictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The plan was drafted by the administration\u2019s technology and AI team, which includes representatives of Silicon Valley, among them Office of Science and Technology director Michael Kratsios, AI and cryptocurrency lead David Sacks and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio. More than 10,000 stakeholders submitted comments that were taken into account in compiling the document.<\/p>\n
The plan\u2019s main pillars:<\/p>\n
\n- large\u2011scale AI\u2011infrastructure build\u2011out<\/strong>: constructing data centres, chip\u2011fabrication plants and power sources, using federal land, bypassing environmental constraints;<\/li>\n
- deregulation<\/strong>: curbing state\u2011level AI rules, tying federal funding to a rejection of regulations, surveying business and the public about obstructive rules;<\/li>\n
- protecting free speech and combating \u2018biased AI\u2019<\/strong>: excluding DEI, disinformation and climate from government risk assessments, requiring objectivity from models in public procurement;<\/li>\n
- support for open models<\/strong>: expanding compute access for start\u2011ups and researchers, partnering with major developers, supporting projects such as Meta, Hugging Face and AI2;<\/li>\n
- AI safety<\/strong>: research into interpretability, control systems and robustness to attacks, hackathons at the Department of Defense and Department of Energy to identify vulnerabilities, assessing risks of using the technology in cyberattacks and weapon creation, cooperation between developers and government bodies to assess threats;<\/li>\n
- curbs on China<\/strong>: identifying AI models that reflect party censorship, gathering intelligence on developments in \u201chostile\u201d countries, countering the inflow of chips and other products from the PRC into the United States;<\/li>\n
- national security<\/strong>: integrating artificial intelligence into US defence and intelligence structures, building data centres for the Pentagon, workforce training, process automation, priority access to compute in a crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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