The plan also raises questions around scope, particularly because current tariff structures could potentially apply to finished products containing these minerals, though the administration has not clarified that. In any case, whether introducing AI-powered analysis to the already tumultuous climate for international trade can help level the playing field remains to be seen.
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Dementoss Trusting AI to do something really important, that's the rare earths market going to be screwed-up by the Trump administration. Reply
VizzieTheViz I don’t see why they’d need AI for this, but reducing dependency on a single supplier (and one you’re none to friendly with at that) for any important resource seems like a sound idea. Probably a case of even a broken clock being right twice a day, but I’d rather see the US government doing things like this than picking fights with its allies. Reply
King_V What could POSSIBLY go wrong? I mean, it's not like there'd be any sort of "I'm going to tinker with the guts of the AI algorithm so that I get the results I want," right? Because nobody adjacent to this administration has EVER done that. Reply
jp7189 AI doesnt mean LLM. Using multiple data points to infer another data point. Thats all. They could've said "big data", but AI is the fun buzzword of the day. Reply
timsSOFTWARE I understand why they are doing it, but it's kind of ironic at the same time. They aim to counter a nation that uses centralized control of the economy, with centralized pricing control over certain critical minerals. Reply
Why_Me VizzieTheViz said: I don’t see why they’d need AI for this, but reducing dependency on a single supplier (and one you’re none to friendly with at that) for any important resource seems like a sound idea. Probably a case of even a broken clock being right twice a day, but I’d rather see the US government doing things like this than picking fights with its allies. The word 'allies' is subjective anymore. Reply
nogames Wait. The government setting prices on commodities! This was extensively used in communist countries. Reply
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