Forbes April 11, 2025
Efforts from firms and governments to prioritize AI safety, which emphasizes ethics, transparency and predictability, have been replaced in the Trump era by a starkly realist doctrine of AI security. For those of us who have been watching this space, the demise of AI safety happened slowly during the last half of 2024, anticipating a potential change in administration, and then all at once.
President Donald Trump rescinded former President Joe Biden’s AI Executive Order on day one of his term (disclosure: I served as senior counselor for AI at the Department of Homeland Security during the Biden administration), and Vice President JD Vance opened up the Paris AI Action Summit, a convening that was originally launched to advance the...







