AI in the Oval Office: Who Is Really Shaping Donald Trump’s Reality? |
AI in the Oval Office: Who Is Really Shaping Donald Trump’s Reality?
In an era of rapidly expanding artificial intelligence, a troubling question arises: can the leader of the world’s most powerful state make decisions based not on expert institutions and advisers, but on algorithms designed to flatter and reinforce existing beliefs?
We already know that AI is being used by the military to target and kill, as the proving ground of Gaza has demonstrated in real time; however, that is but the tip of the iceberg. It appears that Trump is letting an AI tool direct his every whim and knee-jerk reaction.
Firstly, AI tools are programmed to tell you what you want to hear, including telling you lies, whatever it takes to satisfy you. That’s exactly what Trump wants. He most definitely is using an AI agent in getting feedback. That’s why he posts AI-made drawings and over-the-top social media posts.
At times it makes you question if the US and the world are being controlled by real people or by an AI agent that is lying out its proverbial ass, or perhaps I should ask AI to explain it all for me?
Connect the Dots, presenting the case!
Somewhere between the latest “market-moving” Friday post to pump up the stock market for some good old-fashioned insider trading and a questionable AI-generated portrait of himself performing miracles as a parody of Jesus Christ, a new theory practically writes itself: what if the Oval Office isn’t being run by a person anymore—but by a very eager chatbot with a flair for flattery?
Think about the pattern: oil dips, stock market ‘pump and dump’ schemes, and right on cue comes a triumphant declaration that everything is going exactly according to plan. Meanwhile, Iran is out here politely clarifying that they did not, in fact, say the things being attributed to them by the liar in chief.
It’s less geopolitics and more a........