OK, comrade: The American AI dream sounds a lot like digital communism

Beneath the freedom talk lies a centralized machine that hoovers up private data, flattens dissent and redistributes cognition by token By Pavel Sirvatko, Junior Research Fellow at Georgy Arbatov Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of SciencesDonald Trump and major tech leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta and other tech companies gathered for a meeting at the White House to reach a deal on what Trump described as an “AI constitution” to ensure that frontier models do not pose catastrophic, unintended risks.In the course of the meeting a “morally binding” voluntary accord was signed in order to “win safely,” as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei put it.Beyond this self-regulation pact, the Trump administration will additionally set up a governmental board to oversee the safety of AI tools.Another big change emerging from the meeting is not surprising, given Trump’s affinity for the naming of names. From now on, executive departments and agencies “shall use ‘Super Intelligence’ or SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” in official correspondence, reports, and policy documents within the executive branch.Trump’s rationale is that the word “artificial” make...