If this doesn’t chill you, I don’t know what will. 😱 “A president with the authority that Trump is now asserting could in theory put the wo…

If this doesn’t chill you, I don’t know what will. 😱 “A president with the authority that Trump is now asserting could in theory put the world’s most powerful AI to repressive ends while at the same time keeping it off the market and out of the hands of rival power centers.” Over the past few weeks, President Trump has accomplished what you might call a time-release power grab. He has asserted a kind of authority over the dissemination of large language models that, as AI gets more and more capable, will make it easier for presidents to abuse their p…

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-07-04