Audiogram with Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 logo, title “Winning the Race to Hell” and subhead “Spoiler alert: Trump’s “AI Action Plan” is a gift to business interests” Subtitles: KATE BRENNAN: We are seeing, first of all, “unleashing innovation” is just how many ways can we talk about how burdensome and hindering regulation is. So, like, immediately, the top line message that we’re getting from this statement is that in order to succeed, in order to win the race, in order to be the best, in order to innovate, we need to take down any sort of regulatory barriers that are hindering us. And then, not only that, we have to use that as justification to pursue this energy dominance, “Build, baby, build,” “Drill, baby, drill” energy agenda. Where linking those two has been, I think, a strategy of the administration since day one. And seeing them, I think, one right after the other makes it so clear that AI is being used rhetorically, strategically, politically, economically, as a wedge to ensure that Big Oil is getting what they want from this just as much as Big Tech is.