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The American people are being lied to about artificial intelligence (AI). On the one hand, we are offered apocalyptic prophecies of job loss and oppression, even extinction of the human race. On the other, we hear utopian fantasies of a future without toil, without disease, perhaps even without death – a life without meaning or mission.
Utopians and catastrophists make the same mistake: they neglect human action.
The future of AI is not an inevitability that the American people must endure: it is up to us, the American people, to shape it.
AI is not a god. He can’t snap his fingers and eliminate jobs; people will use AI to eliminate jobs or create them. AI cannot decide to oppress us; people will build AI tools that will either respect privacy and civil liberties or erode them. AI did not choose to write poetry or generate pornography; people chose to build cheap consumer goods rather than real productivity tools.
These are choices that you and I must make every day.
I have spent the last two decades alongside men and women who are building the future of American AI. They include some of the world’s best software engineers, but also college dropouts, veterans, self-taught blue-collar workers, and nurses. They don’t see AI as something that will happen to them – they recognize it as a tool they can use to become more productive and make our country safer and more prosperous. And you too.
The benefits of AI belong to all Americans.
Below are some principles and themes I’ve seen inform people and organizations that are using AI effectively and in service of worthy goals: reindustrialization, deterrence, improved healthcare, and much more.
I. AI is a tool for the American worker, not their replacement
The talk of job loss is a ploy to attract investors, attract media attention and consolidate political power. The real promise of AI in business is to make the American worker 50 times more productive – to unleash their taste and free will. This is not speculation; this is reality.
Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s chief technology officer. (FNC/Palantir)
I have seen maritime industrial base manufacturers use AI to open up a third shift. I spoke with the ICU nurse who learned how to use AI so she could spend more time at the bedside, where it’s needed most.
Doomerism is an ivory tower luxury; the future of AI is being built on the front lines and in factories.
II. The American worker will use AI to do more with less and become more productive and valuable in the process.
For a century, American prosperity was guaranteed by a simple market: when the worker produces more, he earns more. This agreement broke down in the 1970s – not because of technology, but because of political choices that disempowered workers. We will not repeat this mistake.
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When AI doubles production, the worker using it should see that gain reflected in their salary, equity stake, and share in the company. This is not a redistribution, but a recognition. The worker is not a cost center; he is a co-creator of value. Treat it accordingly.
III. The American worker deserves world-class tools, not AI trinkets
The electrical engineer of Georgia who enlisted in the Navy out of high school deserves the same abilities as the Stanford computer science graduate in Silicon Valley. He deserves to have access to instruments of real productivity, not toys of consumption.
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Before Gutenberg, a book cost as much as a house. Knowledge was locked away in monasteries and chained to shelves. The printing press broke this information monopoly. AI is the printing press of our time – the same technology that serves Fortune 500 companies should serve the workers of Tulsa, the nurse in Tampa and the North Dakota farmer.
The benefits of AI belong to 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 for lack of training. Workers should have access to meaningful AI training that helps them bend AI to their will, not the other way around. The critical care nurse does not need 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 more quickly and accurately.
The American worker is not deficient; he is under-indebted. AI is the lever.
V. AI implementation must be shaped by and for frontline users
The front-line worker understands what senior managers cannot understand. Policy should be shaped by practitioners – the critical care nurse, the manufacturing technician, the logistics coordinator – not by academics, consultants or lawyers.
Toyota has built the most successful manufacturing system in history on a simple principle: the worker knows best. Its system for suggesting creative ideas has been operating for over 70 years. Ideas spring from the factory floor, not from corner offices. The result: billions of value created and a culture where every worker owns quality.
The development and deployment of AI should prioritize American workers and industry. The goal is not efficiency in the abstract, but American prosperity in the concrete.
Push power to the tip of the spear and let the American worker do what he does best.
VI. AI should be used to reduce bureaucracy and free human action
AI should eliminate bureaucracy, not add to 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 advance faster, not slow them down.
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Every layer of process that comes between the frontline worker and their ability to do their job is dead weight to be destroyed.
VII. AI development and deployment should prioritize American workers and industry
The development and deployment of AI should prioritize American workers and industry. The goal is not efficiency in the abstract, but American prosperity in the concrete.
China’s manufacturing productivity grows by 6% per year. Ours grew 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, or publish opinion pieces. They are quietly leading by example and proving what is possible when the most powerful technology ever created meets the most capable workforce ever assembled.
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Armed with AI, the American worker will rebuild our industrial base. It will outperform any competitor. He will create prosperity not only for himself but also for his children, who will inherit not a diminished nation, but an ascending one.
Silicon Valley builds the AI. Wall Street funds it. Washington regulates it.
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But the American worker – in the factory, in the ICU, in the field – uses it.
And that will make all the difference.