Tech Policy Press "How Trump's AI Policy Promotes Ethnonationalism"
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Issue: As Spencer Overton https://www.linkedin.com/posts/spencer-overton-922463ba_recently-the-trump-administration-made-explicit-activity-7405356868828766209-_RlU explains: "By eliminating policies intended to ensure safeguards against algorithmic bias and recasting work on such problems as ideological threats to innovation, these policies encode exclusion into the technological infrastructure of the future while maintaining a veneer of neutrality. As a growing body of research suggests, when AI systems operate without regulation, they default to dominant patterns that reproduce racial inequality and suppress cultural pluralism ... ethnonationalism is the idea that full belonging in a nation should depend on shared ancestry, culture, and language. In practice, it treats some people and some groups as kind of the real nation and others as outsiders who should assimilate or have fewer rights. In the United States, we've seen this in our history. We had originally a law restricting naturalized citizenship to white persons of good character here. We've restricted voting by race. We've restricted other elements of civic participation by race. So, that's been our history. But we see right now this ethnonationalism really resurging in particular areas. And it's not just the United States. We think about movements like AfD in Germany or Le Pen in France. This has been fueled by demographic change, cultural and economic anxiety, nativism, racial resentment. And in the United States, you talked about President Trump, the movement has taken the form of an increasingly explicit effort to banish racial diversity from the center of national political life. And we see this in terms of policy on immigration, education, history, and civil rights ... the second administration is using federal AI governance basically to advance its ethnonationalist agenda. In a nutshell, basically repealing many of the protections against AI bias on the first day. Saying that AI global dominance is our priority and not safeguards was another step. Certainly, prohibiting the federal government from purchasing AI fine-tuned to reduce bias is another step. And then also deterring states from preventing AI bias, which it just recently did in December in terms of calling out Colorado's algorithmic bias law as a hindrance here to innovation. These are some of the core claims in the first year or steps in terms of advancing ethnonationalism" (Hendrix, J., 2026). Further: http://trigg.gr/tag/PoliticsNationalismEthno#106109B845863;S3 Bibliography: Overton, S. (2026). 'Ethnonationalism by Algorithm'. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6065414 Hendrix, J. (2026, January 18). "How Trump’s AI Policy Promotes Ethnonationalism". Tech Policy Press. https://www.techpolicy.press/how-trumps-ai-policy-promotes-ethnonationalism/
