The White House orders tech companies to make AI bigoted again

After delivering a rambling celebration of tariffs and a routine about women’s sports, President Donald Trump entertained a crowd, which was there to hear about his new AI Action Plan, with one his favorite topics: “wokeness.” Trump complained that AI companies under former President Joe Biden “had to hire all woke people,” adding that it is “so uncool to be woke.” And AI models themselves had been “infused with partisan bias,” he said, including the hated specter of “critical race theory.” Fortunately for the audience, Trump had a solution: he signed an executive order titled “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,”

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