During the campaign of Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States, Elon Musk was one of the characters who most supported the Republican. And now, his name once again gained strong relevance among the headlines when he was appointed to head the new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), which, despite the name, will not be a government agency. In addition to this position, a non-profit organization also requested that Elon Musk become the special advisor on AI.
The proposal made by the organization Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) notes that “no one is better equipped to help the Trump administration make America a leader in AI than Elon Musk.”
The organization highlighted the leadership that Musk represents in the technology industry and assumes that he is capable of protecting the country’s dominant position in the development of this technology.
Of course, they also highlighted that “adequate mechanisms” could be implemented to avoid conflicts of interest and a safe implementation.
“He would push for the creation of a regulatory body that would have knowledge of what big tech companies are doing in AI. “If there were adequate mechanisms for conflicts of interest, Musk would be an invaluable resource to help the Trump administration develop this transformative technology,” the organization’s petition states.
Elon Musk was one of the pioneers in the development of Artificial Intelligence. He was the co-founder of OpenAI, the AI research company currently led by Sam Altman.
However, he distanced himself from the company a few years later and signed one of the letters asking companies to stop developing AI models for at least three months.
During this time, he has been seen to have a firm stance on the development of regulated artificial intelligence, due to the scope it can have. He even engaged in legal action against OpenAI, where he accused the company of infringing on its original mission of creating non-profit AI models.
In this context, ARI senior vice president of government affairs Satya Thallam states that “Musk knows what it takes to make the United States a leader in safe AI.”
Despite this request, it is not known if Musk would assume this position, since during Donald Trump’s campaign he promoted the creation of a Department of Government Efficiency to eliminate inefficient public spending.
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Marcelo Ebrard prepares a meeting with the magnate to define the projects
Donald Trump will be president and now that he has added Elon Musk to his work team, in Mexico they began to question whether the project for the Tesla factory in Nuevo León will be definitively canceled.
The Secretary of Economy of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, announced in an interview that he plans a meeting with the CEO of Tesla to ask him about his plans to build an assembly plant in Mexico.
“I’m certainly going to seek a meeting with (Musk) soon so he can tell me exactly what he’s thinking, if that’s possible to be clear about in the coming months, and see what we can do to keep this project going,” Ebrard said. .
The construction of the Gigafactory in Nuevo León was suspended without notice last July. At that time, Musk said that it made no sense to invest in Mexico if Trump became president, since one of his campaign promises was that he would impose 200% tariffs on cars imported from Mexico, so it would be illogical to continue with a project. that will not have economic benefits as expected.
Additionally, Musk’s company has also recently announced that it will use its current factories to boost production of its electric cars, rather than investing in new facilities.
No official confirmation has been given on one side or the other, but if the meeting that Ebrard is looking for takes place, there will probably be news soon, whether to continue or cancel.
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Kristi Noem will be Secretary of Homeland Security
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, proposed the governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of his administration, as reported yesterday by the transition team of the republican.
With the election of Noem to the DHS and the recent announcement of the appointment of Tom Homan to return to direct the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service), Trump composes the executive core of his immigration and deportation policy with hard-core people of Trumpism and defenders of the mass deportation promised by the president-elect. “Kristi has been very tough on border security.”
“She was the first governor to send National Guard soldiers to Texas to help with (Joe) Biden’s border crisis,” Trump highlighted yesterday in a statement.
According to the president-elect, Noem will work closely with “border czar” Tom Homan to “secure the border and ensure our American homeland is safe from adversaries.”
Noem responded in a statement that she looks forward to working with Homan and Trump to “restore security to America’s communities so that families have the opportunity to pursue the American Dream.”
With the election of the Republican governor, Trump ensures that a loyal person will lead an agency, born after the attacks of September 11, 2001, to centralize the coordination of federal security agencies.
Noem will be tasked with overseeing a sprawling agency that controls everything from the U.S. Border Protection system and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Secret Service.
The DHS is key in directing national security policy, controlling the country’s airports, borders and customs. Trump promised during this election campaign a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, invoking martial law to detain them and condemning to death those who murder to police officers.
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