Why Trump Became an AI 'Accelerator': "Personalizing America's Success Story"

"How did an 80-year-old populist who doesn't even use email become such a fervent artificial intelligence evangelist?"

This is the question posed by critics directed at U.S. President Donald Trump, who has emerged at the forefront of the opposing side (AI accelerationism) in the heated AI speed-control debate currently sweeping the United States.

The core argument of the speed-control camp is that AI development could get out of human control and lead to the extinction of humanity, meaning the pace of AI development should be slowed down and regulations tightened right now.

President Trump fiercely criticized this view.

As the AI speed-control debate erupted like a flood over the weekend, he posted seven consecutive messages on social media in a single day on the 14th (local time).

By following the arguments in the posts on President Trump's social media platform Truth Social, one can guess why he came to believe in AI accelerationism.

President Trump first stated, "A sick conspiracy is underway targeting AI and data centers. The only country that welcomes it is China," adding, "Whoever wins in AI wins all."

He then warned "conspiracy theorists, traitors, turncoats, and leakers," writing, "Do not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs."

After defining as a "hoax" the claims that "AI is taking over the world and destroying humanity and all those other bad things," President Trump shouted, "Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Impeachment Hoax."

In his next post, he claimed, "The people saying AI will destroy the world and that data centers are bad for your communities are the exact same people who, until very recently, said the world was going to perish because of 'climate change.'"

Emphasizing that he is a "crusher of hoaxes," he stated that the perpetrators of these hoaxes are the "radical left 'Dumocrats' (a derogatory term for Democrats)."

He concluded by writing, "The AI hoax being perpetrated by the radical left Dumocrats reminds me of the global warming scam from not long ago, where everyone was going to die of extreme heat."

Connecting President Trump's logic, it implies that 'the conspiracy (speed-control argument) to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs (AI) benefits competitor China, and this is similar to the impeachment hoax that tried to oust him under the pretext of the Russia election interference allegations or the Ukraine scandal, and shares the same context as the climate change theory fabricated by the Democratic Party for political reasons.'

In other words, he has cast the elite group of big tech companies arguing that AI development must be halted as being in cahoots with China and the Democratic Party, turning them into targets of political criticism and othering them.

As if seven posts were not enough, President Trump called NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who was attending an event in Los Angeles (LA) on the other side of the American continent, and repeated his claims about a "hoax."

The U.S. online media outlet Axios analyzed on the 15th that "Trump grafted his political grievances onto the claim that fears about AI are artificially manufactured," interpreting that he casts elite groups of experts as "villains" and chants slogans for their political overthrow.

The outlet further noted that President Trump is captivated by an "AI narrative that fits his instincts perfectly," encompassing visions such as the U.S. winning the competition with China, large-scale construction projects building data centers, semiconductor plants, and power plants, a booming stock market thanks to AI, and the U.S. dominating future technologies.

(Photo: AP, Yonhap News)
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