At the elite American forum formed by the contemporary American tech community at the “Hill and Valley” forum in Washington, President Donald Trump recently announced the broad outlines of the United States’ plan regarding the future of artificial intelligence. The White House considers that amid a historic geopolitical transformation witnessed by the global system, the US must develop a foreign policy approach prioritizing technological dominance as a core objective. Washington and its competitors increasingly seek to leverage AI as a means to demonstrate power, and the “MAGA” group believes the Trump administration has already begun a seismic shift in its worldview but needs a comprehensive strategy to ensure continued global dominance of American technologies. Trump’s plan represents a path toward American leadership, assigning roles to every American citizen, company, university, and institution to usher in a new era of prosperity and strength under the “America First” slogan.

The roadmap aims to reshape the global order and highlight American influence as a lever for world stability, insisting on the “American Century” concept drawn since 1997 by conservative groups, indicating a deep state directing this empire’s courses regardless of White House changes. The Trump administration views AI as a fundamental tool for governance and infrastructure, with public-private partnerships being crucial to sustaining American leadership. Washington must set rules to guide the future of global AI. The event took place at the heart of the influential tech industry, especially digital, addressing innovators, venture capitalists, and prominent American billionaires, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, alongside Silicon Valley podcast host David Sacks, an AI and cryptocurrency expert in the White House.

Trump stated America must return to being “a country where innovators are rewarded with a green light, not strangled by bureaucracy preventing movement and breathing.” Trump’s plan is based on three executive orders: the first mandates any federally funded company to keep AI models free from “ideological doctrines” like diversity, equity, and inclusion. The other two orders focus on deregulating systems, a key demand from American tech leaders increasingly opposed to government oversight. The administration aims to make America an exporter of multiple AI programs, focusing on removing Biden-era rules that imposed barriers to safe AI development. Mentioning Biden leads forcibly to his farewell speech warning of the “tech complex” or tech oligarchy striving to hijack American democracy, akin to the military-industrial complex warned against by President Eisenhower in 1961.

The strategy faces challenges: it requires building massive data centers across US states, demanding huge energy, likely necessitating coal use again, causing pollution amid a planet already suffering from global warming. These centers also need vast water amounts for cooling, potentially straining water resources in areas without sufficient surplus. Questions arise whether the world faces regulating the “immortal dictator,” a term coined by American political patriarch Henry Kissinger for AI, and why voices inside America oppose the technological minority’s dominance through this strategy, demanding safeguards to avoid disasters like the Three Mile Island nuclear incident.