The New York Times on Monday published a blockbuster report detailing how US President Donald Trump’s administration gave the United Arab Emirates access to high-powered artificial intelligence chips just days after receiving a massive investment in Trump’s cryptocurrency startup.
As the Times report documented, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) ruling family, had one of his investment firms deposit $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, the startup founded by members of the Trump family and the family of Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
Just two weeks later, wrote the Times, “the White House agreed to allow the UAE access to hundreds of thousands of the world’s most advanced and scarce computer chips, a crucial tool in the high-stakes race to dominate artificial intelligence,” despite national security concerns about these chips being shared with China.
NYT Archive Article: https://archive.is/IIcca
and nothing will be done about it
What can we do about it? Tell me something I can go out and do today or this weekend. I’m sick of sitting on my hands. Feels like protests do nothing
You? Not much, people in government could do a lot, though. They won’t. but they could. The most you can do about this is grass roots campaigns to put pressure on your local reps to do something for you.