Trump's Handling of AI Foreign Policy Leaves National Security Adviser Fuming

Jake Sullivan is furious that former President Trump destroyed his comprehensive plan for managing an AI arms race with China, a move that has left him scrambling to rebuild from scratch and warning that it could leave the US vulnerable in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. The national security adviser had spent months assembling an interagency planning exercise to address the potential risks and consequences of such a race, including everything from economic trade wars to all-out real conflicts, possibly even the emergence of advanced artificial general intelligence (AGI). Sullivan’s team had made significant progress on developing a framework for how the US government would respond to these threats, but Trump’s actions have set it all back. “It’s like we’re starting from zero,” one source familiar with the planning exercise told The Verge, describing the current state of affairs as “chaotic.”