"Brazil’s executive branch has already launched a sweeping AI action plan, and lawmakers are expected to pass a regulatory framework in the coming weeks. Still, Brazil’s approach to AI policy has caused some pushback at home, and not only from tech companies fearing red tape.

Ronaldo Lemos, the founder of the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro and one of the authors of Brazil’s 2014 internet bill of rights, told Foreign Policy that Brazil’s draft AI legal framework leans so heavily into regulation that the country stands to miss out on economic benefits.

Brazilian officials, for their part, have argued that their proposed AI policies strike a balance between innovation and safeguarding against potential harm.

If enacted in its current form, Lemos said, the AI action plan “would cause significant stagnation in the artificial intelligence innovation sector.” He noted that the legislation does little to address the need for large-scale education and workforce retraining. Though the plan mentions retraining, Lemos said it is an area where Brazil can learn from India."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/20/brazil-india-lula-modi-visit-ai-rare-earths-cooperation/

#Brazil #Brasil #India #Lula #AI #AIPolicy #AIActionPlan #Diplomacy

"The abrupt change in export-controls policy hints at a shift in the administration’s theory of China competition. In March 2025, when the administration solicited public input on its forthcoming AI strategy, no major tech company dared to suggest that China gain access to leading American AI hardware. Political consensus was such that national security concerns took unimpeachable priority over selling key technology to rivals. The terrain on which that consensus rested is now breaking down.

Two recent developments are driving the shift. First, American tech business elites, having reached the profitability limits of hardware controls, are looking outside US borders. And within China, the Biden-era GPU restrictions are at least as likely to have spurred Chinese innovation as to have contained it.

If the US once sought to safeguard its comparative advantage of deep learning GPUs, it is now exploiting that advantage to facilitate grander imperial ambitions. The Trump administration’s reconfigured priority is to export the “American AI technology stack”—chips, data storage, foundation models—around the world. To navigate national antagonisms on the bleeding edge of technology, the US is reproducing what John A. Hobson, writing at the turn of the 20th century, saw in the conquests of old empire: a “political policy and practice,” brokered by the “industrial and financial chiefs,” to relieve “the pressure of capital for external fields of investment.”"

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/great-power-antinomies/

#USA #Trump #AI #AIActionPlan #China #TradeWar #AIChips #GPUs #Nvidia

#FDA employees say the agency's #Elsa #GenerativeAI #hallucinates entire studies

by Anna Washenko, July 24, 2025

Excerpt: "The CNN investigation highlighting these flaws with the FDA's #ArtificialIntelligence arrived on the same day as the White House introduced an #AIActionPlan. The program presented AI development as a technological arms race that the US should win at all costs, and it laid out plans to remove 'red tape and onerous regulation' in the sector. It also demanded that AI be free of 'ideological bias,' or in other words, only following the biases of the current administration by removing mentions of #ClimateChange, #misinformation, and diversity, equity and inclusion [#DEI] efforts. Considering each of those three topics has a documented impact on #PublicHealth, the ability of tools like #Elsa to provide genuine benefits to both the FDA and to US patients looks increasingly doubtful."

Read more:
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/fda-employees-agencys-elsa-generative-203547537.html

#USPol #Censorship #BigBrother #BigTech #TechFascism #AISucks

President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a #CivilLiberties Nightmare

A new executive order called “Preventing #WokeAI in the Federal Government,” released alongside the #AIActionPlan , seeks to strong-arm #AI companies into modifying their models to conform with the #Trump Administration’s #ideological agenda.
#artificialintelligence #rights #eo #executiveorder

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/president-trumps-war-woke-ai-civil-liberties-nightmare

"The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targets measures designed to mitigate the generation of racial and gender biased content and even hate speech. The reproduction of this bias is a pernicious problem that AI developers have struggled to solve for over a decade.

A new executive order called “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” released alongside the AI Action Plan, seeks to strong-arm AI companies into modifying their models to conform with the Trump Administration’s ideological agenda.

The executive order requires AI companies that receive federal contracts to prove that their LLMs are free from purported “ideological biases” like “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” This heavy-handed censorship will not make models more accurate or “trustworthy,” as the Trump Administration claims, but is a blatant attempt to censor the development of LLMs and restrict them as a tool of expression and information access."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/president-trumps-war-woke-ai-civil-liberties-nightmare

#USA #Trump #AI #GenerativeAI #AIActionPlan #LLMs #WokeAI #Censorship #DEI #CivilLiberties