
The White House orders tech companies to make AI bigoted again
Adi Robertson
created: July 24, 2025, 7:18 p.m. | updated: July 25, 2025, 10:54 a.m.
The Trump administration isn’t terribly detail-oriented, either — if some X user posts about Anthropic’s consumer chatbot validating trans people, do we really think Pam Bondi or Pete Hegseth will distinguish between “Claude” and “Claude Gov”?
The incentives overwhelmingly favor companies changing their overall LLM alignment priorities to mollify the Trump administration.
Its incentives, again, reflect what the Trump administration has done through “DEI” investigations of universities and corporations.
Attacking “the incorporation of concepts” that promote “DEI” effectively tells companies to rewrite whole areas of knowledge that acknowledge racism or other injustices.
The tech industry sees AI as the future of culture — and the Trump administration wants its politics built in on the ground floor.
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