How Trump Can Save the Future
November 19, 2025
Along with the acceleration of artificial intelligence, we are seeing an accelerating political response. This response seeks to limit AI in order to protect workers, families, and communities. It is not pro-China, anti-innovation, or “doomer.” It is natural, necessary, and inevitable. Radical social and technological change always generates a protective impulse. As AI accelerates, it also accelerates the social movements that aim to stop it, slow it down, or channel it in new directions.
To further complicate matters, Silicon Valley’s AI dream is now endorsed and advanced by the federal government. On July 10, 2025, the Trump Administration released Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan, which detailed how dozens of federal agencies will contribute to the United States achieving “global dominance in artificial intelligence.” The effort to engineer technologies that surpass human beings in every respect is now a state project. So, those who want to protect society now find themselves opposite the state that should protect them.
