Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Alexander Wang, CEO of Scale AI, published a full-page ad in The Washington Post asking the Trump administration to invest more in artificial intelligence.
Wang, who participated Trump’s inauguration on Monday, like many other tech leaders, placed “Dear President Trump: America Must Win the AI War,” ad copy on X.
In full letter In a webcast, Wang explains the five broad steps the US needs to take to win what it sees as the “AI war” against China.
Scale, whose core business is tagging and processing data for AI projects in large organizations, was evaluated last year it was 13.8 billion dollars.
Wang wants the US government to emulate the tech giants by spending more on data and computing. It also recommends that the US review its regulations to ensure that there are more AI-related jobs in the future.
Wang then calls for federal agencies to be “AI-ready” by 2027, launch an “aggressive” plan for cheap electricity that can be consumed by AI-centric data centers, and offers ideas for implementing some AI security measures.
Scale could benefit from at least some of these recommendations, such as an increase in US government spending on data. Measure it now counts The US government as a client and so on is said to be a part Plans for a US defense startup consortium.
Friendlier regulations and incentives for AI-related jobs could also help Scale, as it relies heavily on contract workers, of which few recently filed a lawsuit claims to have been misclassified.
However, Wang saw the recommendations as part of an effort to keep the US ahead of China in artificial intelligence. His letter reads: “We are in a new kind of technological arms race. “The Chinese government is investing in artificial intelligence at an unprecedented rate.”
There have been Chinese models like DeepSeek draw attention for their strong performance across certain industry benchmarks. China is now catching up to the United States after at least a year behind schedule, Wang’s letter said echoed by other AI leaders.
But Wang’s description of the US-China artificial intelligence competition as a “war” has caused some concern.
“This is a terrible framework – we are not at war. We’re all in this, and if we turn AI development into a war, we’re all going to die,” wrote former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear. briefly CEO of OpenAI in 2023.
How the Trump administration will react to this remains to be seen. So far, President Trump’s main move has been on artificial intelligence to cancel Its predecessor’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence created guidance to help companies correct flaws and biases in their models.
