One of the big challenges of reporting to the new administration is that it is difficult to understand who really calls the shooting. Get it. In his comments to world leaders at the Paris action summit last week, Vice President JD Vance put a picture of where the Trump administration should go to him: “This administration will ensure that American technology and he continues to be The golden standard around the world and we are the choice of choice for others – foreign countries and of course businesses – as they expand their use of it. ”
He specifically spoke about the importance of America that has its advanced semiconductor design industry. Right now, there is a desperate clash in the industry of him to stem enough from the advanced computer chips in which he operates. They are an essential technology, and their building in America is a reasonable advantage if you are concerned about the capabilities of advanced, conventional war with China that would reduce semiconductor imports, or production reorganization.
Vance’s speech was strong in him: Based on his remarks, I expected that while many traits of his policy to biden the administration, like concerns about the misinformation created by him, were probably in Outs, the act of chips and science of the year 2022 who encouraged the development of an advanced industry of the American semiconductors and the limited exports of the advanced semiconductors – was here for staying. And so far the chip project has gone well. So I expected the administration to climb it or even double.
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Trump officials can still do it. But now it is difficult to show, due to the actions of another side of the new administration: Doge. As you have heard for sure so far, the so-called Elon Musk Government Efficiency Department is in many government departments, systematically shooting all proof employees, widely employed or promoted in the past year. This includes most people in the government who are employed to work on him, including most staff working on the implementation of the Chips Act, Axios reported this week, citing conversations with known sources with the decision. For Axios, “74 postdox, 57% of chip staff focused on incentives”, and “67% of chip staff concentrated on R&D” were projected to be fired. (It seems that the cuts have not happened yet, so it is still very possible that the administrator will return the course or limit their purpose.)
To be clear: this is not a target cut. It is not that the administration has decided to turn the course into chips. It is just that, while firing any single lease in recent times through a large part of the government, the Musk team can randomly fire all the latest expertise that has been accumulated around it.
At the beginning of the Biden administration, almost no one outside Silicon Valley was talking about him. Even from the medium-term elections of 2022, we were still pre-chatgt. In the last two years alone, he has begun to turn the world upside down.
First there was chatgt, and then clash from any other major technology company at the US to produce a competitor: Dall-E 2 and then Midjourney, and a bloom of other open-sourced art generators, They expelled artists from the business and the visual content available online were transformed. Then came Deepseek and other models of one who can “reason”, and now deep research that many people have said can essentially replace research practitioners.
Because everything has happened in the space of two years, all government employment focused on catching with our new world with energy it is new employment-not only those working in chips but all in National Standards Institute and Technology Institute of Security, which researchs it and tests the risks and skills of it. And that means that most of them are proof employments that are likely to be influenced by the rage of DOGE through the federal government.
This is an extremely stupid problem to have. If the administration wants to give up an advanced semiconductor industry in the US, that’s one thing. But if the administration wants to have an advanced semiconductors industry to stay competitive in the most important technology of the 21st century, as Vance said it does last week, it is absurd to give up because it happens so we hired most people who work in it quite recently.
One of the ways it presents an unprecedented challenge for the government is how fast it moves. It is hardly the first technology to avoid a lot of work, or to dramatically change how other jobs work. But the sooner those transitions occur, the more lives they can hurt in their continuity, and the harder it is for democratic supervision and adjustment mechanisms to work. If he were to happen slowly, gradually changing the way we live and work over the next 30 years, I would be quite optimistic that we would have enough time to save, learn, learn and design appropriate laws.
But it is happening very quickly, and the US government – which is not generally very good at doing things quickly – it has been constantly on the back. And Doge seems to be responsible for making it much worse – not even through malice, but through inattention. The shooting of people is much faster than to hire them; Freezing financing is much faster than understanding where it can be used better. But with him, we must be able to collect expertise quickly, act quickly on it, and stand by the pace of change in the private sector. Doge was originally conceived as an agency that would ease it. But so far, they are making it harder.
I find it very likely that the world transforming will reach the current administration, the technology that can replace tens of millions of overnight jobs, which will represent a massive change in the concentration of power in our society, and that experts can go fatally wrong vance is not wrong about the top. Musk, who believes there is a very real chance for him to destroy humanity, is not wrong about weaknesses. But they will both have to become serious if they want their administration able to do so to go well.