In a world where there is very little actual human intelligence, it’s important for the United States to stay ahead of everyone else when it comes to artificial intelligence. That’s what I think, anyway. It’s always better to be ahead of the future than behind the past.
Part of getting ahead is dominating in the advanced AI chip game, which we are, thanks in large part to President Trump. These “semiconductor” chips are key to the world’s data and so many high-paying future jobs that to not fight to make the US the leader in this field would be negligence.
That’s probably why the Biden administration seemingly did all it could to hinder their development. “The Biden administration implemented unprecedented restrictions on chip exports and semiconductor manufacturing equipment in October 2022, which were subsequently expanded and refined in October 2023 and December 2024,” according to the International Center for Law and Economics.
While that may sound good to you, because who wants to help China? It also incentivized China to push forward on its own development of these advanced chips. In the last year of the Biden administration, China announced a $47.5 billion fund to serve essentially as steroids for their semiconductor sector. When I read that I knew this was a race I wasn’t sure we were prepared enough to run.
The Biden administration sat by as China lapped the US in hypersonic weaponry, shipbuilding and God knows what else. We absolutely cannot allow them to beat us on AI.
Part of being the leader in the world on something like these super chips is supplying them to the world. That may seem counterintuitive – how can you lead if you’re allowing others to access that technology? – but the answer is pretty simple: They’re going to get it from somewhere, it might as well be you. Additionally, when you are the supplier, you can limit the strength and size of the technology, which, according to reporting, is the Trump Administration’s strategy – allow exports to China but keep the most powerful chips for America.
Think about it for a second, developing this tech is very expensive, as evidenced by China’s massive investment, but other countries are going to do it because it is where the economy is heading. If these other countries spend the money and develop their own research and manufacturing infrastructure, they will become a country we won’t be able to sell those chips to because they won’t need them. They may also develop advancements beyond ours.
By supplying what is needed by the rest of the world (with the exception of bad actors on the world stage), the United States can help control the direction the technology goes and who has access to what. Why would a country, or companies in it, spend hundreds of millions to build chip manufacturing facilities to make complex chips that may or may not work, when they can simply purchase the chips themselves and know they will?
Think of it this way: You want a sandwich. You can either get a bread oven, some animals to turn into meat, grow some vegetables and work to bring it all to the point where you can make your own sandwich, provided all goes according to plan, or you could just go to a sandwich shop and buy a sandwich. Which would you be most likely to do?
It’s pretty clear that most people would do the same thing, just as most countries and companies would allow others to take the risks and simply buy what they need from them. For most of the world, the idea of having the production is not as important as being able to enjoy the fruits of the end product.
Yes, some countries (like China) will want to have it all and have the means to at least give it a shot. However, there’s a difference between wanting to do something and needing to do it. The urgency of “need” fades with the convenience of not having to.
President Trump gets this, as evidenced by the important role these chips played in his trip to Asia this week, and is reportedly considering allowing a freer hand to sell chips to China, as is my understanding, at least partially on this premise.
There is, naturally, pushback largely driven by special interests on the left. As David Sacks, Trump’s AI Czar, pointed out recently on X, to many on the Left, “The real issue” the left has with the President’s position is that is interferes with their “agenda to backdoor Woke AI” and other
Biden AI regulations through Blue states like California. So, yeah, there’s going to be outrage.
But hell, there’s outrage over every possibility the President even thinks about in any field, so this is nothing new, and you’d go crazy trying to stop it.
You’d also be crazy to let it stop the progress and economic wins just sitting there. The best way to be a world leader is the lead the world, and on AI we are, and need to be, the world’s leader. When you have a lead, you do not give it up.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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