US EditionCritics suspect Trump’s weird tariff math came from chatbots
- President Trump announced a new tariff system after a post was published, setting rates as high as 50 percent.
- The premise for these tariffs is that foreign nations are allegedly “taking advantage” of the United States.
- These tariffs tax almost all goods entering the U.S., aiming to incentivize domestic manufacturing and agriculture.
- The White House data claimed Indonesia set tariffs of 64 percent, but this number reflected a trade deficit turned into a percentage, according to Surowiecki.
- Critics suspect that the Trump administration may have consulted chatbots to devise its global trade policy, which even the bots warned may not benefit the U.S.
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Trump’s Tariff Math Likely Came from an AI Chatbot
The Verge finds the tariff calculations unveiled by President Trump in the Rose Garden yesterday -- which make little sense -- are "an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots happen to recommend."
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