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AI Villains And The Trump Administration

The Trump Administration is all in on artificial intelligence. The federal government shares the tech industry’s vision for AI to be embedded everywhere, displacing human thought and labor and deepening the strains on the environment and climate.

July 09, 2026

Fletcher Calcagno

Newsletter Artificial IntelligenceExecutive BranchRevolving DoorTech

Introducing Our AI Villains Tracker

To understand the Trump administration’s policy on AI, one has to look beyond Trump’s own pronouncements to the AI “experts” he surrounds himself with. To that end, we at the Revolving Door Project are launching our AI Villains Tracker—an compendium of the people responsible for crafting and delivering some of the least popular policy decisions made by the second Trump Administration. 

July 08, 2026 | The American Prospect

Fletcher Calcagno Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Op-Ed CryptocurrencyEthics in GovernmentFintechIndependent Agencies

Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps

Last month, Fortune reported that Theodore Gillibrand, son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), had received a $30 million dollar round of investment for his company, American Perpetual Exchange Commission (APEC). The funding round valued APEC at $300 million and was led by Lux Capital, a venture capital firm whose other investments include the Peter Thiel-backed Anduril Industries and Erebor Bank.