It’s Trump’s ‘technopoly’ now

Donald Trump recently gave his most extensive public comments to date on artificial intelligence. “It is a superpower, and you want to be right at the beginning of it, but it is very disconcerting." Trump also mentions receiving $12 million for his campaign from unnamed Bay Area “super-geniuses,” a subtle marker of his emergence as the standard-bearer of the right-leaning, crypto-loving wing of Silicon Valley. Given how often Trump flip-flops, it’s worth focusing on what’s most consistent about his relationship with Silicon Valley: His status as a walking embodiment of the “move fast and break things” venture-capitalist ethos. This philosophy is alive and well today, and goes a long way toward explaining Trump’s appeal to a contingent in Silicon Valley whose entire existence is defined by a dissatisfaction with the status quo.