Donald Trump’s EPA pick wants to make America the computer aided intel capital of the world

Sensitivities to Artificial Intelligence from Trump’s Candidate for the U.S. Senate and a Republican Democrat

The petition was started by a former Democratic representative and says that no one else is better suited to help the Trump administration lead on artificial intelligence than Musk.

Musk has been a leading critic of Openai but was distanced from and made into an opponent. Shortly after the release of ChatGPT, he signed onto a letter calling for a moratorium on the development of more advanced generative AI models in order to implement safeguards. Critics say his stances are largely self-interested, however, since he also runs his own AI company, xAI.

“With proper guardrails in place, his unique combination of technical expertise and safety advocacy could be a valuable asset in developing responsible AI governance,” Robusto writes.

Artificial intelligence is top of mind for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY). Zeldin said in his post that he plans to help “unleash US energy dominance” and make America the Artificial Intelligence capital of the world.

“The two things we know for certain are that Trump has tried to cripple EPA in the past and he has tasked his new pick to head EPA with rolling back dozens of clean air and water regulations,” Jeremy Symons, senior adviser to Environmental Protection Network and former EPA climate adviser, said in an email to The Verge. “Hopefully Zeldin can rise above his alarming EPA voting record and will recognize there is broad and bipartisan public support for EPA’s work to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink,” Symons added.

During a three-hour interview with Joe Rogan on October 25th, Trump also complained about environmental impact studies that he said made it more difficult to complete his own building projects in the past. The environmental stuff was always bad. They could slow a project down 10 years, 15 years,” he said. It costs a lot to do things that are environmentally clean.

Julie Tighe said that they did not always see eye to eye with Zeldin, but they did work to find common ground on several issues. She pointed to Zeldin’s opposition to offshore drilling during Trump’s previous administration as an example.

Some environmental advocates are holding out hope that they’ll be able to salvage long-standing environmental rules with Zeldin, rather than seeing a worst-case scenario outlined in Project 2025 that would all but dismantle the EPA. Zeldin voted to slash the EPA budget by 25 percent in 2017, which could have resulted in the loss of 3,200 jobs at the agency.

Data centers, which tend to gobble up more energy when used for training AI, have become a hot-button environmental topic. Data center power use has stayed relatively flat thanks to the benefits of energy efficiency. Now, with the popularity of AI and efficiency gains waning, data center power demand could climb 160 percent by 2030, according to Goldman Sachs Research. The US has more data centers than any other country, and their growing thirst for electricity could lead to pollution in the power sector.