By Paul Wallis
EDITOR AT LARGE
DIGITAL JOURNAL
December 13, 2025
A ChatGPT adult mode that OpenAI is aiming to make available early next year is expected to allow for erotic conversations between users and the chatbot - Copyright AFP VALERIE MACON
The last thing anyone expects from the US is realism or competence on any level. Total trade, diplomatic, and socioeconomic failure apparently isn’t enough, though.
Trump’s much-hyped executive order is to pre-empt and “target” states that pass their own AI laws.
This order is the brainchild of the Business Software Alliance, a consortium of stakeholders in AI like OpenAI and Microsoft.
The stated aim of the BSA is to “build trust among people, companies, and governments. Our mission is to ensure that responsible software innovation can thrive throughout the world”.
That’s ironic. Most critics think that this order is Federal overreach at its worst. There’s nothing remotely rational about removing so many law enforcement safeguards at any level.
The sheer depth of naivete and ignorance in this train wreck is astonishing. The brakes have been removed from an anything but roadworthy jalopy before it’s even been built.
These are the same guys who don’t know how to stop playing Monopoly and raising the cost of living to intolerable levels.
Rich kids with bought degrees who missed puberty completely and went into business instead.
The mere fact that half-ass laws like this could only even be considered by hyper-mediocre doormat “political people” doesn’t seem to have set off any alarm bells among the geniuses. It’s not like the administration and its related hangers-on know a damn thing about AI or anything else.
The theory here is to create one national framework for AI regulation. That would theoretically make sense if there weren’t a few massive black holes in the whole idea.
This order simultaneously ignores any and all civil law and the realities of current AI, let alone future AI. Does the Federal government want to take on all future AI legal disputes, yes or no? Do you have any idea how much that would cost? There’s no indication of the actual effects of this post-it note level one size fits all approach on IP disputes, conflicting commercial interests, or anything else.
The additional mediocre and shabby bunting to this Christmas fiasco is that it’s “to promote US AI innovation”. Like most Trump administration actions, it’s more of a PR stunt than anything like a workable policy.
The short answer to that is “what innovation”? Most of it is criminal AI behavior. Deepfakes, AI fraud, AI malware, etc? That’s innovation? You seriously think an executive order will have the slightest effect on any of it?
The stated aim of the administration is “US AI supremacy”. That’s a war that’s already been lost. It’s like Manifest Destiny, but in this case it’s Manifest Delusion.
Yet again, this senile version of America has decided that the rest of the world doesn’t or shouldn’t exist, so it can happily babble on to itself.
It’s more like one of those personalized storybooks for very young kids than policy. “Then Little Bozo signed an executive order so everyone would be rich and insular and butt-ugly and contented,” more or less sums it up in this case.
Yet again, everyone will have to route around the US to create a legal global AI framework that can actually work at all.
The world is tired of trying to tolerate this insanity.
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in this Op-Ed are those of the author. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of the Digital Journal or its members.
December 13, 2025
A ChatGPT adult mode that OpenAI is aiming to make available early next year is expected to allow for erotic conversations between users and the chatbot - Copyright AFP VALERIE MACON
The last thing anyone expects from the US is realism or competence on any level. Total trade, diplomatic, and socioeconomic failure apparently isn’t enough, though.
Trump’s much-hyped executive order is to pre-empt and “target” states that pass their own AI laws.
This order is the brainchild of the Business Software Alliance, a consortium of stakeholders in AI like OpenAI and Microsoft.
The stated aim of the BSA is to “build trust among people, companies, and governments. Our mission is to ensure that responsible software innovation can thrive throughout the world”.
That’s ironic. Most critics think that this order is Federal overreach at its worst. There’s nothing remotely rational about removing so many law enforcement safeguards at any level.
The sheer depth of naivete and ignorance in this train wreck is astonishing. The brakes have been removed from an anything but roadworthy jalopy before it’s even been built.
These are the same guys who don’t know how to stop playing Monopoly and raising the cost of living to intolerable levels.
Rich kids with bought degrees who missed puberty completely and went into business instead.
The mere fact that half-ass laws like this could only even be considered by hyper-mediocre doormat “political people” doesn’t seem to have set off any alarm bells among the geniuses. It’s not like the administration and its related hangers-on know a damn thing about AI or anything else.
The theory here is to create one national framework for AI regulation. That would theoretically make sense if there weren’t a few massive black holes in the whole idea.
This order simultaneously ignores any and all civil law and the realities of current AI, let alone future AI. Does the Federal government want to take on all future AI legal disputes, yes or no? Do you have any idea how much that would cost? There’s no indication of the actual effects of this post-it note level one size fits all approach on IP disputes, conflicting commercial interests, or anything else.
The additional mediocre and shabby bunting to this Christmas fiasco is that it’s “to promote US AI innovation”. Like most Trump administration actions, it’s more of a PR stunt than anything like a workable policy.
The short answer to that is “what innovation”? Most of it is criminal AI behavior. Deepfakes, AI fraud, AI malware, etc? That’s innovation? You seriously think an executive order will have the slightest effect on any of it?
The stated aim of the administration is “US AI supremacy”. That’s a war that’s already been lost. It’s like Manifest Destiny, but in this case it’s Manifest Delusion.
Yet again, this senile version of America has decided that the rest of the world doesn’t or shouldn’t exist, so it can happily babble on to itself.
It’s more like one of those personalized storybooks for very young kids than policy. “Then Little Bozo signed an executive order so everyone would be rich and insular and butt-ugly and contented,” more or less sums it up in this case.
Yet again, everyone will have to route around the US to create a legal global AI framework that can actually work at all.
The world is tired of trying to tolerate this insanity.
____________________________________________________
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in this Op-Ed are those of the author. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of the Digital Journal or its members.
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