Trump's AI Action Plan is a distraction

This flurry of actions made for glitzy press moments, including an hour-long speech from the president and onstage signings. But while the tech industry cheered these announcements (which will swell their coffers), they obscured the fact that the administration is currently decimating the very policies that enabled America to become the world leader in AI in the first place. To maintain America's leadership in AI, you have to understand what produced it. Here are four specific long-standing public policies that helped the US achieve this leadership--advantages that the administration is undermining. Generative AI products released recently by American companies, like ChatGPT, were developed with industry-funded research and development.