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Alexandr Wang , the CEO of Scale AI , has taken out a full - page ad in The Washington Post asking the Trump administration to invest more in AI .
Wang , whoattendedTrump ’s inauguration on Monday like many other tech CEO , posteda written matter of the ad on X , which reads “ Dear President Trump , America must win the AI War . ”
Inthe full letterpublished online , Wang explains that the U.S. should take five broad steps to win what he believe an “ AI war ” against China .
Scale , whose core stage business is data labeling and processing for AI task at gravid organizations , was valuedat $ 13.8 billion last year .
Wang wants the U.S. government to emulate technical school giants by spending more on data and compute . He also recommend the U.S. review its own regulations to insure there ’s plenty of AI - interrelate jobs in the time to come .
Wang further calls for making Union agencies “ AI - ready ” by 2027 , launch an “ fast-growing ” plan for cheap electrical energy that can be consumed by AI - centrical data center , and offered estimate on how to implement some AI safety measures .
musical scale could profit from at least some of these recommendation , like a spate in U.S. government activity outlay on data . Scale alreadycountsthe U.S. government as a client and isreportedly partof plans for a U.S. defense inauguration syndicate .
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More friendly regulation and boost AI - related jobs could help Scale as well , as it relies heavily on contract workers , a few of whom haverecently file away lawsuitsalleging they are misclassified .
Wang , however , has framed the recommendations as part of an effort to keep the U.S. ahead of China in AI . “ We are in a fresh kind of technological arms subspecies , ” his letter states . “ The Formosan government is investing in AI at an unprecedented pace . ”
But Wang ’s framing of U.S.-China AI competition as a “ war ” has raised concern from some .
“ This is a horrible framing – we are not at war . We are all in this together and if we make AI development into a war we are potential to all die,”postedEmmett Shear , the ex - Twitch chief executive officer who wasbrieflyOpenAI ’s CEO in 2023 .
How the Trump administration responds remains to be seen . So far , President Trump ’s master action mechanism on AI has beento revokehis predecessor ’s executive lodge on AI , which created direction for companies to help correct flaws and biases in their models .
