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Melania Trump held rare public comments on Thursday to initiate a press conference of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education. And raved about the possibilities of AI technology. “It would not surprise me if AI is known as the greatest engine of progress in the history of the United States,” she said in a general explanation. One that could have come from Chatgpt as well.
Hymns without substance
The First Lady is not an official member of the Task Force, which was founded in April. And which is directed by Michael Kratsios, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and former head of the rod of the risk capital Peter Thiel. She led the meeting. Spoke about self -driving cars and robot -based surgery. But also praised “innovations of first generation humanoids”. Probably an indication of Tesla’s striking Optimus robot. Elon Musk recently predicted that this model would one day make up 80 percent of the company value and that one million pieces could be produced by 2027. But Tesla already has difficulty completing the 5,000 units planned for this year. And the bots presented so far were partially controlled by people in PR campaigns. So they are not fully autonomous. They didn’t get on the market anyway.
“The robots are there,” the First Lady announced on Thursday in front of a group, which also included the CEOs from Google and IBM. “Our future is no longer a science fiction.”
“I don’t think that will happen”
Overall, the 40-minute briefing was poor in concrete political details. But rich in hymns of praise for the AI industry. David Sacks, White House Zar for AI and cryptocurrency as well as allies of Musk and Thiel, grabbed the usual flattering. A speech by President Trump on July 23 is “the most important speech about AI that has ever been held by an official”. In this speech at the event “Winning the Ai Race”, Trump spoke, among other things, about tariffs, trans women in sports, California exhaust gas rules and “the removal of Woke”. He also said that he did not like the term “artificial intelligence”. “I don’t like anything that is artificial.”
Sacks quoted Trump’s metaphor from AI as a “beautiful baby that is born”. And said: “He is right with it.” He predicts that AI will do the work “more fulfilling”. He wiped fears from the table from automation. “I don’t think that will happen.” However, he warned that workers may be replaced by “someone who uses AI better than them”.
Absurd statements about electricity, A1 and agriculture
Minister of Energy Chris Wright, climate wall um and former CEO of a fracking company, explained: “Basically, artificial intelligence transforms electricity into intelligence that strengthens Americans. We use it to understand the substance of the universe.” Previously, he had claimed on Fox News to work with AI every day. To heal cancer. To develop fusion energy. Or to understand dark matter. He did not deliver any specific results.
Minister of Education Linda McMahon, who had incorrectly referred to Ki in April as “A1”, said that she finds the technology “incredibly helpful”. She announced a visit to the Alpha School in Austin. A school in which students only learn for two hours a day using AI programs. And otherwise be accompanied by “guides” instead of teachers. The Ministry of Education expressly wants to promote “the integration of AI in class, learning and school operations” in order to prepare children for “the AI-driven world”.
Golden future visions without reality
Minister of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said that AI change agricultural knowledge and will “make our food supply more nutritious”. Minister of Labor Lori Chavez deremer promised that new training programs will “fill the mortgage jobs that will create AI”. The reality looks different. The US labor market is currently in the crisis despite AI boom. Industry experts strongly doubt that AI will generate more jobs. Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer from Google X, recently called this idea “100 % nonsense”.
Nevertheless, the government officials presented a utopian vision in the White House. America will beat China in the AI race race, use a generation of technology genius and enter into a “golden age of prosperity”. Says Rollins. In truth, a lot sounded like a triumphal march that has not yet existed. Sacks also praised Trump in order to have immediately abolished regulations for AI companies, which are now confronted with complaints due to alleged suicide enthusiasm through chatbots. In the end there was another example of a “thinking”. Their most important task is to celebrate yourself and the president.