Like many of the rest of us, MAGA has grave concerns about AI. Will it enhance human capabilities, or completely replace them? If the latter, what will happen to the displaced workers? Will we have to support them with some sort of UBI program, which is antithetical to the reactionary Victorian ethos? Will the programs ultimately become our masters–a sort of replacement God? Nobody knows.
Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to care. A reactionary to the core in most other ways, he is fully on board with a sweeping AI deregulatory program. That, along with his support of the American tech companies in their battles with foreign governments, is why his alliance with tech has endured to date.
The Chinese approach to AI is different. The CCP is never going to let AI get out of control; tech will always be required to meet the needs of the government. That means, in the end, we are likely to “win” the race for AGI with the Chinese. The fruits of that “victory” could be very poisonous, indeed.