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The Trump administration withdrew an executive order from the former President Joe Biden, which made rules around the development and deployment of AI. Since then, the government has stepped back from regulating technology.
In hearing more than three hours in Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transport, like officials Openi CEO Sam Altman, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Coreweave Co-founder and CEO Michael Interator and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith urged policy makers to reduce the process of building infrastructure around AI development.
Officials told the policy makers that permission to allow permission that new data centers can be made important to activate the power plant data centers and even chip fabricator to reduce AI Tech Stack and keep the country competitive against China. He also talked about the need for more skilled workers such as electricians, encouraging software talent to reduce immigration and adopt a “AI spread” or generic AI model worldwide.
Freshman told the senators that the company was leading the charge in AI that the company went to the $ 500 billion Stargate project in Texas, but it requires a greater infrastructure like power plants to fuel its next stage.
“I believe that the next decade will be about abundant intelligence and abundant energy. Ensuring that America goes into both of them, that we are able to enter these dual revolutions that will change the world that we live incredibly positively,” Altman said.
The hearing took place when the Trump administration is determining how much the government will have an impact in the AI space. The chairman of the committee, Sen Ted Cruise of Texas said that he proposed to create AI regulator sandbox.
Smith of Microsoft said Written testimony The American AI companies need to continue innovation because “this is a race that no company or country can win by itself.”
Supporting AI Tech Stack
Smith of Microsoft placed the AI Tech Stack, in which he said how important each sector segment is for innovation.
“We are all together. If the United States is going to lead the world in AI, it requires infrastructure, it requires success at the platform level, it requires those who make the application,” Smith said.
“Innovation will run rapidly with more infrastructure, rapid permission and more electricians,” he said.
The SU of AMD reiterated that “to maintain our leadership actually requires excellence on every layer of stack.”
“I think open ecosystems are actually the cornerstone of American leadership, and this allows ideas to come from everywhere and every part of the innovation,” Su said. “It is reducing obstacles to strengthen safety and safety, as well as to create a competitive market for ideas.”
The AI model requires more GPU for training, the need to improve the production of chips, create more data centers and find them how to find ways of power. Chips and Science Act, a biden-era law, was Means jumping The production of semiconductor in the US, but locally making the necessary chips to provide electricity to the world’s most powerful model is proving slow and expensive.
In recent months, companies such as cerebras have announced a plan to create more data centers to help process model training and estimate.
A break from current policies
The Senate majority of the Republican policy makers made it clear during the hearing that the Trump administration would prefer to not regulate AI development, a more market-operated, hand-off approach priority. This administration has also pushed for more American-focused development, demanding that businesses use American products and create more American jobs.
However, officials said that to remain competitive for American AI, companies need access to international talents and more importantly, clear export policies because models in the US may be attractive to other countries.
Smith said, “We need to adopt rapidly, people who refer to AI dissemination. To promote productivity to AI to work in every part of the US economy, to promote economic growth, the ability to enable people to innovate in their work.” “If America is about to lead the world, we need to join the world. Our global leadership depends on our ability to serve the world with the right approach and our ability to maintain the trust of the rest of the world.”
He said that Tier is required to remove quantitative cap for two countries because these policies have “sent a message to 120 countries that cannot provide us to the AI that they want and need.”
Altman said, “The world will have great chips and models trained worldwide, reiterating the leading position of American companies in space.
There is some good news in the field of AI spread because the hearing was going on, the department of commerce continues Announced that it is modifying the rules The limited of which countries can get chips made by American companies. The rule was scheduled to be effective on 15 May.
While officials said that government standards would be assistants, they reduced any steps for the release of “East-Anumdan” model similar to the European Union.
Open ecosystem
The generative AI holds a marginal place in technical regulation. On the one hand, comparative lack of rules has allowed companies such as OpenIAI to develop technology without much fear of results. On the other hand, like AI, Internet and social media, before that, touches people’s lives professionally and individually.
In some ways, the authorities removed how the Trump administration has deployed American development. The hearing has shown that while AI companies want support from the government to speed up the process of expanding the AI infrastructure, they also need to be more open for the rest of the world. This requires talent from abroad. It needs to sell products and platforms to other countries.
Social media commentary was diverse, with some that officials, especially in Altman, had different opinions on the first regulation.
2023 Sam Altman: Congress tells the Congress that a new agency should be created for the need for a license for the powerful AI model
2025 Sam Altman: The Congress requires a license for the powerful AI model tells the “disastrous”
– Tom Simonite (@tsimonite) May 8, 2025
AI begs for executed regulation. No more. https://t.co/hcdfsj2lcj
– Daniel Patrick Forester (@DPFORRESTER) May 9, 2025
Other people said that other countries can see where their own AI policies have failed.
It is very long and partially boring. But if you work in an European country or in the European Union, it must be a one.
Senate hearing on AI with AMD CEO Sam Altman, Chairman Microsoft and Founder of Korwave.
A major recurring topic: “How do we ensure that failures …
– Joe Bhakti (@jobhakdi) May 8, 2025
