{"id":665311,"date":"2025-04-25T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/public-comments-to-white-house-on-ai-policy-touch-on-copyright-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:25:15","slug":"public-comments-to-white-house-on-ai-policy-touch-on-copyright-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/public-comments-to-white-house-on-ai-policy-touch-on-copyright-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Public comments to White House on AI policy touch on copyright, tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Individuals, industry groups, and local governments submitted over 10,000 comments to the White House about its work-in-progress national AI policy, also known as the AI Action Plan. The White House Office of Science<\/a> and Technology<\/a> Policy (OSTP) on Thursday published<\/a> the text of the submissions in a PDF spanning 18,480 pages.<\/p>\n

The comments, which touch on topics ranging from copyright to the environmental harms of AI data centers, come as President Donald Trump and allies rejigger the U.S. government\u2019s AI priorities. <\/p>\n

In January, President Trump repealed former President Joe Biden\u2019s AI Executive Order, which had instructed the National Institute of Standards and Technology to author guidance that helps companies identify \u2014 and correct for \u2014 flaws in models, including\u00a0biases.\u00a0Critics allied with Trump argued that the order\u2019s reporting requirements were onerous and effectively forced companies to disclose their trade secrets.<\/p>\n

Shortly after revoking the AI Executive Order, Trump signed an order directing federal agencies to promote the development of AI \u201cfree from ideological bias\u201d that promotes \u201chuman flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.\u201d Importantly, Trump\u2019s order made no mention of combating AI discrimination, which was a key tenet of Biden\u2019s initiative.<\/p>\n

Comments submitted to the White House make clear what\u2019s at stake in the AI race. <\/p>\n

A number of commenters asserted that AI is exploitative, in a word, trained on the works of creatives who aren\u2019t compensated for their involuntary contributions, and petitioned the Trump administration to strengthen copyright regulation. On the opposing side, commenters such as VC firm Andreessen Horowitz accused rightsholders of putting up roadblocks to AI development. <\/p>\n

Several AI companies, including Google and OpenAI, have also pushed for friendlier rules around AI training in earlier comments on the AI Action Plan.<\/p>\n

Petitions from organizations including Americans for Prosperity, The Future of Life Institute, and the American Academy of Nursing emphasized the importance of investments in research at a time when the federal government is slashing scientific grants. AI experts<\/a> have criticized the Trump administration\u2019s recent cuts to scientific grant-making, and, in particular, reductions championed by billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency.<\/p>\n

Some commenters on the AI Action Plan took aim at the Trump administration\u2019s far-ranging tariffs on foreign goods, suggesting that they may harm domestic AI efforts. The Data Center Coalition, a trade association representing the data center sector, says tariffs on infrastructure components \u201cwill limit and slow\u201d U.S. AI investments. Elsewhere, the Information Technology Industry Council, an advocacy group whose members include Amazon, Intel, and Microsoft, urged \u201csmart\u201d tariffs that \u201cprotect domestic industries without escalating trade wars that harm consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only a handful of comments mentioned \u201cAI censorship,\u201d a topic top of mind for many of Trump\u2019s close confidants. Elon Musk and crypto and AI \u201cczar\u201d David Sacks have alleged that popular chatbots\u00a0censor conservative viewpoints, with Sacks\u00a0singling out<\/a> ChatGPT in particular as untruthful about politically sensitive subjects.<\/p>\n

In truth, bias in AI is an intractable technical problem. Musk\u2019s AI company, xAI, has itself\u00a0struggled\u00a0to create a chatbot that doesn\u2019t endorse some political views over others.<\/p>\n

President Trump has ramped up efforts to assemble an AI policy team in recent months. <\/p>\n

In March, the Senate confirmed Trump\u2019s pick for director of the OSTP, Michael Kratsios, who focused on AI policy in the OSTP during Trump\u2019s first term. Toward the end of last year, Trump named former VC Sriram Krishnan as the White House\u2019s senior policy advisor for AI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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