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Hello and welcome back to Five Things AI!

A week after Donald Trump won the US elections, we are still unsure what this will mean for AI. The most likely case is that current regulations, developed under Biden and set in motion as part of an Executive Order, will most likely be repealed under Trump. We just don’t know what Elon Musk wants to do and I guess it depends on whether he thinks his startup xAI will benefit from regulation while playing catchup with OpenAI, Anthropic and others. OpenAI wants to benefit from an America First attitude by advocating that there should be a huge infrastructure push for the whole continent, which also means that the taxpayers should pay for the expansion. Welcome to the Oligarchy. We don’t know yet how this develop, but my guess is that Trump will let Big Tech off the leash and that he will declare regulation and safeguards in AI as unamerican and probably communist.

While it is really a bit too early for 2025 predictions, I think it is safe to say that Agentic AI will move forward very quickly and push a new wave of AI into many different industries that were not yet that affected by AI. This will bring costs down and improve efficiency, but it will also bring profound change onto the workforce, even more than the prompt-based chatbots did. What do you think? Which industry will be disrupted next? And how will people react to more AI, let’s say in healthcare?

And while we’re thinkin about the future - when will we get our little household companions that empty the dishwasher, put the groceries away and fold the laundry? That’s something I find really interesting, even though we don’t even have a vacuum robot yet, as our kids leave everything on the floor anyways. An AI that could guide a robot to pickup all the stuff our kids drop and stow them away - this would be awesome. Or would it?

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