In a speech last month, President Donald J. Trump outlined three executive orders he signed to promote American dominance of AI technology. He promised, in fact, that as America is the country that started the AI race, “I’m here to declare that America is going to win it!”

To do so, his executive orders would make it easier for companies to build AI infrastructure, speed up the permitting process by doing away with any oversight and safeguards he believed to be onerous, and push the exporting of America-manufactured AI products.

This is just the latest salvo in what is now a global AI arms race, backed by billions of dollars in investment by tech companies and venture capital firms big and small here in the U.S. and across the globe. I’ve conducted academic research on responsible AI for

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