The American people are being lied to about artificial intelligence (AI). On the one hand, we are offered apocalyptic prophecies of job losses and oppression – even the extinction of the human race. On the other hand, we hear utopian fantasies about a future without toil, without illness, perhaps even without death – a life without meaning or mission.
The utopians and the doomers make the same mistake: they neglect human intervention.
The future of AI is not an inevitability to be endured by the American people; it is up to us, the American people, to shape it.
AI is not a deity. It cannot snap its fingers and cut jobs; people will use AI to eliminate or create jobs. AI cannot decide to oppress us; people will build AI tools that enforce or erode privacy and civil liberties. AI did not choose to write poems or generate pornography; people chose to build cheap consumer goods instead of real productivity tools.
These are choices you and I have to make every day.
I’ve spent the last twenty years working with the men and women building the future of American AI. They include some of the best software engineers in the world, as well as college dropouts, veterans, self-taught people and nurses. They don’t treat AI as something that will happen to them; they see it as a tool they can use to make themselves more productive and our country safer and more prosperous. And you should too.
The benefits of AI are for all Americans.
Below are some principles and themes I’ve seen informing people and organizations using AI effectively and in service of good causes: reindustrialization, deterrence, improved healthcare, and more.
I. AI is a tool for the American worker, not his replacement
The job loss narrative is a ploy to attract investors, generate media attention and consolidate political power. The real promise of AI in the enterprise is to make the American worker 50x more productive – to unleash their taste and freedom of choice. This is not speculation; it is reality.
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I’ve seen maritime industrial base manufacturers use AI to open up a third shift. I talked to the ICU nurse who learned to use AI so she can spend more time at the bedside, where she is needed most.
Doomerism is a luxury of the ivory tower; the future of AI is built on front lines and factory floors.
II. The American worker will use AI to do more with less – and become more productive and valuable as a result
For a century, American prosperity was assured by a simple agreement: if the worker produces more, the worker earns more. That agreement was broken in the 1970s—not by technology, but by policy choices that stripped workers of power. We will not repeat that mistake.
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When AI doubles production, the worker who uses it should see those gains reflected in their salary, equity stake and stake in the company. This is not redistribution – it is recognition. The employee is not a cost center; he is a co-creator of value. Treat him accordingly.
III. The American worker deserves world-class tools, not AI gimmicks
The electrical engineer in Georgia who joined the Navy after high school deserves the same skills as the computer scientist at Stanford in Silicon Valley. He deserves access to tools for real productivity, not consumer toys.
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Before Gutenberg, a book cost as much as a house. Knowledge was locked in monasteries and chained to planks. The printing press broke that monopoly on information. AI is the printing press of our time – the same technology that serves Fortune 500 companies should serve the worker in Tulsa, the nurse in Tampa, and the farmer in North Dakota.
The benefits of AI are for all Americans.
IV. AI is an American birthright
AI is the product of American courage, ingenuity and culture. It is our birthright. No American worker should be left behind because of a lack of education. Employees must have access to meaningful AI education that helps them master AI – not the other way around. The ICU nurse does not have to learn to code; she needs AI to surface the right patient data at the right time – so that her clinical judgment, honed over years at the bedside, can be applied faster and more accurately.
The American worker has no want; he has too little influence. AI is the lever.
Q. AI implementation must be shaped by and for frontline users
The frontline worker understands what the C-suite cannot. The policy must be shaped by practitioners – the ICU nurse, the production technician, the logistics coordinator – and not by academics, consultants or lawyers.
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Toyota built the most successful manufacturing system in history based on a simple premise: the worker knows best. The Creative Idea Suggestion System has been around for more than 70 years. Ideas come from the factory floor and not from corner offices. The result: billions in value created and a culture where every employee owns quality.
AI development and deployment must prioritize American workers and American industry. The goal is not efficiency in the abstract – it is American prosperity in concrete terms.
Push the power to the tip of the spear and let the American worker do what he does best.
VI. AI should be used to cut through bureaucracy and unleash human agency
AI should eliminate bureaucracy, not increase it. No new compliance theater. No “AI governance” committees designed to slow things down and centralize power among “managers.” AI should enable the American worker to move faster, not slow him down.
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Every layer of process that stands between the frontline worker and their ability to do their job is a dead weight that must be destroyed.
VII. AI development and deployment must prioritize American workers and American industry
AI development and deployment must prioritize American workers and American industry. The goal is not efficiency in the abstract – it is American prosperity in concrete terms.
Chinese manufacturing productivity is growing at 6% per year. Ours is growing by 0.4%. If we don’t invest in AI and automation, we will lose. The American worker with AI superpowers is eroding China’s competitive advantage.
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I see these principles embodied and put into practice every day by men and women who are not invited to speak on panels, record podcasts, and publish op-eds. They are quietly leading by example, proving what is possible when the most powerful technology ever combined with the most capable workforce ever assembled.
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Armed with AI, the American worker will rebuild our industrial base. He will beat any competitor. He will create prosperity not only for himself, but also for his children, who will inherit not a diminished nation, but an emerging nation.
Silicon Valley builds AI. Wall Street finances it. Washington regulates it.
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But the American worker – on the factory floor, in the intensive care unit, in the field – wields it.
And that will make the difference.
