This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
A WIRED report profiles the network of advisers and officials shaping AI policy inside the Trump administration, revealing that decision-making is fractured across many competing factions rather than driven by a unified vision.
Why this matters: When AI policy has ten competing sides inside the same administration, coherent rules are hard to produce. That matters because companies, researchers, and civil society groups are all waiting on decisions about how AI gets regulated, exported, and used by government. Diffuse power can mean slow rules or no rules — which tends to favor whoever wants the least oversight. If no single person owns the agenda, it is also harder to know who to hold accountable when a policy choice goes wrong.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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