Is Trump’s “truthful AI” executive order necessary for national sovereignty or a political power grab censoring diversity?

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What’s happening today?

In a bold gambit at his “Winning the AI Race” summit, President Trump introduced a sweeping AI executive order aimed at unlocking American tech dominance last month – but not without igniting constitutional alarm bells. 

The order mandates that federally procured AI systems adhere to “Unbiased AI Principles”, enforcing “truth-seeking” objectivity and ideological neutrality, specifically targeting model outputs tied to DEI, critical race theory, or other modern social frameworks. 

Announced this week, first lady and former swimsuit model Melania Trump is taking the helm in teaching the next generation about AI. 

Of course, the First Lady is the perfect choice to teach the next generation about AI. After years as a model, she's a world-class expert at identifying heavily edited images and things that appear human but are completely artificial.

The White House frames the executive order, “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” as a defense against woke ideology infiltrating government tools, critics warn it risks chilling free speech and skirting First Amendment protections, dubbing it a de facto ideological vetting system, not a standards policy.

Woke ideology, according to conservatives, can be as simple as graphics-based marketing, or aforementioned social technology.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jaguar is a British multinational car company.

Critics, however, view the order not as a standard for neutrality but as a politically motivated power grab. They argue it creates a de facto ideological vetting system that risks chilling free speech and skirting First Amendment protections. By explicitly blacklisting certain social frameworks, the order is seen as an attempt to censor diversity of thought and enforce a specific political viewpoint under the guise of objectivity.

The order dogwhistles OpenAI’s troubles with images displaying inaccurate or uncouth portraits of historical figures and groups:

The order could have a chilling effect on AI development. The Office of Budget Management has until November 20, 2025, to push implementing guidance.

Companies seeking lucrative federal contracts may be forced to create sanitized versions of their models, potentially stifling innovation and the AI's ability to grapple with complex societal issues. 

It establishes the government not as a neutral user of technology, but as an enforcer of ideological compliance for the tools it procures.

The clash is as sharp as it gets: Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, who has warned that unbiased AI stripped of context entrenches inequality under the guise of neutrality; versus Matt Walsh, Daily Wire provocateur, who hails Trump’s executive order as a long-overdue purge of “woke ideology” from the nation’s most powerful technologies.

What does AI think?

→Grok as Matt Walsh calls DEI as “leftist indoctrination,” and asserts that the government should “Mandate audits and transparency in AI training data, ban DEI slop, and tie funding to results-based neutrality.”

→Claude as Dr. Buolamwini is more direct—accuses the EO of “weaponizing objectivity to silence equity work”

→Claude as Matt Walsh, or, rather, the emulated equivalent, demands that AI should enforce “biological reality.”

→Gemini as Dr. Buolamwini critical is but measured—focus on “coded gaze,” “algorithmic justice,” and the risks of state-defined truth

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