It has been pointed out that the tariff strategy used by the US regime matches what several AI assistants generate when asked to solve the trade deficit:
https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok
The thing to understand about this as that these are LLMs, trained on a corpus of text expressed by humans
https://www.theverge.com/news/642620/trump-tariffs-formula-ai-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok
The thing to understand about this as that these are LLMs, trained on a corpus of text expressed by humans
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LLM-based AIs are not oracles though. They are not truly intelligent. They are not wise. They are not thoughtful. They are not human.
It will produce the most frequent suggestion or the approach most strongly correlated to the idea of trade deficits in its corpus.
Although it is not obviously a crime, it represents an abdication of responsibility - to a machine.
If they will not be responsible, they shouldn't represent us.
Impeach and remove them
For instance, US consumers can afford to import German and Italian automobiles. Consumers of Lesotho might not be able to afford US automobiles [a guess].