Fortune May 04, 2026 • 20:09

Trump’s former AI czar says the quiet part out loud on the economy: ‘Stopping progress in AI would be equivalent to halting the US economy’ - Fortune

By Tristan Bove

Trump’s former AI czar says the quiet part out loud on the economy: ‘Stopping progress in AI would be equivalent to halting the US economy’ - Fortune

Trump talks about a manufacturing revival, but his former AI czar says AI is now the primary engine of economic growth.

President Donald Trump has framed the current state of the U.S. economy as a golden age, and in some ways hes right. The stock market is at record highs, and economic growth has chugged along adequat… [+5207 chars]

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