Just one more Trump step towards technototalitarianism (see “Technototalitarianism, Part One,” Robert Gore, SLL, 10/2/25). From Leo Hohmann at leohohmann.substack.com:
This is techno-fascism on steroids. Is this what Trump had in mind when he said ‘fight, fight fight’? Was it a declaration of war against our free republic?
CNBC reports that the Trump administration on Monday announced a new initiative they’re calling the “U.S. Tech Force” to build out the infrastructure for artificial intelligence through direct partnerships between private-sector tech giants and the federal government.
The outlet notes this program will include the recruitment of about 1,000 young engineers and other specialists who will work on artificial intelligence infrastructure and other technology projects throughout the federal government.
At least one of the goals appears to be to hand government functionality over to the private sector, which will replace human beings wherever possible with AI.
Participants will commit to a two-year employment program working with teams that report directly to government agency leaders in “collaboration with leading technology companies,” according to an official government website.
The government’s list of “private sector partners” reads like a who’s who of the most monopolistic corporate tech giants on earth: Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google Public Sector, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Palantir, Salesforce and numerous others, the website says.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
― Benito Mussolini
(makes silly face on a balcony)
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It is not AI they are building. It is a program that can search the activities of the subjects of the realm, identify those that need redirecting, attacking those that need coercing, and destroying any who might be threats to their designs.