Siliconsciousness: Trump, AI and the Big Choices We Face in the Very Near Future

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Trump administration’s executive order targeting state regulations on artificial intelligence is a gift to big tech. They say it eliminates a tangle of regulations that stifle innovations, while critics say gives companies freedom to do whatever they please. So what’s the truth? Adam Conner of the Center for American Progress joins David Rothkopf to explore the relationship between federal and state regulations, the economic impacts of AI, and the importance of steering AI development towards a positive future for all of us. This material is distributed by TRG Advisory Services, LLC on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S.. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.9	Welcome to CILA Consciousness, the DSR Network podcast focusing on the artificial
0:51.9	intelligence revolution, politics, and policy.
1:03.8	Hello and welcome to SILA consciousness. I'm David Rothkoff, your host. And this week,
1:08.4	as every week, we will talk about AI, advanced technologies,
1:12.7	policy, how all this affects you, and where we're going. This week, we are very fortunate to have
1:18.9	with us, Adam Connor, who is VP for tech at the Center for American Progress. He has a distinguished background working for a variety of tech companies,
1:31.6	but also for political campaigns over the course of the past couple of decades.
1:37.4	And he wrote an article which caught my eye, oh, I don't know, just about a week ago,
1:47.8	entitled President Trump's AI National Policy Executive Order is an unambiguous threat to states beyond just AI. And you can find that
1:57.5	at the Center for American Progress website, which is American
2:00.8	progress.org.
2:03.8	Adam, thanks for joining us.
2:05.7	Thank you for having me, David.
2:07.5	You know, there was a lot in your, every time somebody asked me about the executive order,
2:12.6	I started to say things, and then I read your article, and you said it all better than I had said it,
2:17.4	because, you know, there are a bunch of problems with the executive order.
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