On the subject of AI policy under Trump 2.0:
Tucker Carlson just spoke at the RNC, and didn’t say anything about AI. But a day or two before, he gave a speech at a “policy fest” run by the Heritage Foundation, and he puts AI alongside transhumanism, climate activism, fascism, communism, and the French revolution, as “anti-human” movements.
So while a switch from Biden to Trump may look like a switch from EA to e/acc as the guiding spirit of AI policy, one should be aware that there is also a current of extreme suspicion and mistrust towards AI on the right of politics too.
If I have calculated correctly, CrowdStrike’s fatal update was sent out about half an hour after the end of Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC. As the Washington Post informs us (article at MSN), CrowdStrike and Trump have a history. I have conceived three interpretations of this coincidence: one, it was just a coincidence; two, it was a deliberate attempt to drive Trump’s speech out of the headlines; three, the prospect of Trump 2.0 led to such consternation at CrowdStrike that they fumbled and made a human error.