The tech billionaires who voted for him in 2024 did not back him for nothing. On Wednesday, July 23, United States President Donald Trump presented a vision for the development of artificial intelligence technology that was largely based on the ideas of major Silicon Valley figures, rolling back the tentative regulatory safeguards that his predecessor, Joe Biden, had tried to put in place.

Speaking at the "AI Summit" held at Washington's Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, an event that was then broadcast on the podcast of tech investor David Sacks, who has become an AI adviser to the White House, Trump signed three executive orders intended to secure the US's "global dominance" in AI. None of the CEOs of major tech companies attended the ceremony.

In his speech, Trump called for the groundbreaking field of AI to be rebranded, saying he "can't stand" the word artificial. "We should change the name," he said. "Because it's not artificial, it's genius. It's pure genius."

The AI action plan published by the White House reflected his enthusiasm. "The United States is in a race to achieve global dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) on a global scale. Whoever has the largest AI ecosystem will set global AI standards and reap broad economic and military benefits," the plan's introduction read.

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