The path to yesterday's executive order began with a simple recognition: AI systems were being trained on decades of content from which conservative voices had been systematically excluded. While Big Tech companies spent years shadowbanning, demonetizing, and algorithmically suppressing conservative media, they were simultaneously using that same poisoned dataset to train the AI systems that would shape humanity's future.
For months, many of us raised the red flag about woke AI.
Human Events published a series of op-eds warning about what biased artificial intelligence would mean for America's future.
In May, I published "AI has a liberal bias problem—here's how to fix it" in Human Events, documenting how every major AI system demonstrated clear left-wing bias. The piece wasn't just analysis—it was a roadmap for action, outlining specific steps needed to restore balance to AI training data.
In July, I followed up with "AI has severe TDS, but President Trump can cure it," making the case that only presidential action could break Big Tech's stranglehold on AI development. The piece connected AI bias directly to the broader pattern of conservative suppression and called for decisive government intervention.
When Elon Musk's own Grok system defended itself by citing Media Matters and Rolling Stone as authoritative sources about conservative voices, I wrote "@Elon, Fixing Grok Is Not Enough," challenging him to go beyond surface fixes and address the fundamental data sourcing problem.
Each piece built the case that AI bias wasn't accidental—it was inevitable when training systems on datasets that systematically excluded half of American thought.
President Trump's executive order Wednesday evening directly addresses every concern we raised. The order mandates that federal agencies can only procure AI systems that adhere to "Unbiased AI Principles"—specifically requiring "truth-seeking" and "ideological neutrality."
The language is precise and powerful. AI systems must be "truthful and prioritize historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity." They must serve as "neutral, nonpartisan tools that do not manipulate responses in favor of ideological dogmas like DEI."
Most significantly, the order rejects AI systems that engage in "suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex" or "manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs." This directly targets the core problem we identified: AI systems trained to serve ideology rather than truth.
When President Trump declared "We don't want woke AI" and "The American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models," he was echoing arguments conservative voices had been making for months.
This executive order represents more than a policy victory—it's a strategic breakthrough in the broader fight against Big Tech bias. For two decades, Silicon Valley companies have used their platforms to suppress conservative voices while claiming neutrality. They've demonetized conservative publications, shadowbanned conservative accounts, and algorithmically throttled conservative content.
Now, as these same companies rush to build AI systems that will replace search engines and shape information consumption, they're doing so using datasets poisoned by their own censorship. The result was predictable: AI systems that reflect Silicon Valley's political preferences rather than America's intellectual diversity.
The executive order breaks this cycle by using the federal government's procurement power to demand better. Companies that want government contracts will need to build genuinely neutral AI systems. The market incentives will shift from ideology-serving to truth-seeking.
One aspect the executive order doesn't yet address—but should in future action—is compensation for conservative media outlets whose content has been systematically suppressed while simultaneously being used to train AI systems. Conservative publications like Human Events, The Epoch Times, Washington Examiner, and hundreds of smaller outlets have watched their reach artificially constrained while their content was harvested for AI training.
This represents a fundamental market injustice: profiting from voices you've spent years trying to silence. Conservative media created valuable content, built loyal audiences, and maintained credibility despite systematic discrimination. That content has clear market value for AI training, yet conservative publishers have received nothing while their suppressors profit.
Future action should address this "revenue suffocation" problem by requiring AI companies to compensate conservative media fairly for both historical archives and ongoing content production.
The executive order also addresses a crucial national security concern. As Trump's AI Czar David Sacks has observed, AI represents a transformation "bigger than the iPhone... bigger than the internet... it will be one of the most important parts of Trump's legacy."
When technology this transformative reflects only half the nation's perspectives, it creates dangerous blind spots in everything from policy analysis to threat assessment. We cannot afford to build AI systems that mirror authoritarian approaches to information control. An AI ecosystem that cannot accurately represent conservative thought fails to capture the authentic American conversation and weakens our competitive advantage.
The executive order ensures that America's AI reflects America's full character, not just Silicon Valley's limited worldview.
Beyond the political implications, this executive order represents a technical breakthrough. By requiring "truth-seeking" AI and rejecting systems that "distort factual information," President Trump has created the framework for genuinely superior artificial intelligence.
AI systems trained on complete, unbiased datasets will be more accurate, more reliable, and more trusted by more Americans. The companies that build such systems will gain competitive advantages in both government and private markets. Truth, it turns out, is not just morally superior—it's commercially superior.
In the age of AI, trust is the highest-yielding investment. The executive order creates market incentives for building trustworthy systems rather than ideologically-driven ones.
This executive order represents the beginning, not the end, of the fight for ethical AI. The federal government's procurement power will pressure the entire industry toward neutrality and truthfulness. But several additional steps are needed:
Transparency Requirements: AI companies should be required to publish detailed breakdowns of training data sources, demonstrating ideological balance rather than claiming it.
Content Licensing: Companies should establish fair compensation mechanisms for conservative media content used in AI training.
Ongoing Monitoring: Regular audits should ensure AI systems maintain neutrality rather than drifting toward bias over time.
Private Sector Extension: While the executive order addresses government procurement, market pressure should extend these principles to consumer AI systems.
The ball is now squarely in the tech industry's court.
The success of this campaign demonstrates something important about American democracy: persistent, principled advocacy can still move mountains. When conservative voices united around a clear problem, presented concrete solutions, and maintained pressure over time, even the most powerful technology companies couldn't ignore the call for change.
The key was connecting AI bias to the broader pattern of conservative suppression that millions of Americans have experienced personally. This wasn't an abstract technology policy debate—it was about fundamental fairness in systems that will shape our children's future.
President Trump deserves enormous credit for recognizing this problem and acting decisively. In an era when most politicians defer to Big Tech expertise, he understood that technological neutrality requires political leadership. His willingness to challenge Silicon Valley orthodoxy may prove to be one of his administration's most consequential decisions.
We also owe gratitude to the many conservative voices who raised this issue: researchers who documented AI bias, journalists who covered the story, and citizens who demanded action. This victory belongs to everyone who refused to accept that America's AI future should be controlled by a handful of ideologically-driven companies.
But most fundamentally, we thank God for opening doors, moving hearts, and ensuring that truth ultimately prevails over manipulation. Divine providence guided this victory, and divine wisdom will guide the battles ahead.
The executive order banning woke AI from federal systems marks a turning point in the artificial intelligence revolution. It establishes the principle that AI systems must serve truth rather than ideology, facts rather than feelings, and all Americans rather than just those who control the algorithms.
This is how we win the AI age: not by building better propaganda systems, but by building better truth-seeking systems. Not by perfecting bias, but by eliminating it. Not by serving ideology, but by serving humanity.
The future of artificial intelligence is brighter because President Trump chose truth over manipulation, neutrality over bias, and service to America over service to Silicon Valley. That choice will echo through history as the moment America decided that its technological future would reflect its full democratic character.
The fight for ethical AI has won its first major victory. Many more battles lie ahead, but yesterday's executive order proves that when Americans unite around truth and justice, even the most powerful technological forces must yield.
