{"slug": "trump-fought-unelected-bureaucrats-now-theyre-being-coded-into-immortality", "title": "Trump fought unelected bureaucrats. Now they’re being coded into immortality", "summary": "The Trump administration achieved a diplomatic win as G20 innovation ministers endorsed the Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies, which favor pro-innovation policy frameworks, foundational research, commercialization, and trusted deployment. However, the article raises a democratic question about whether future administrations can replace automated policies coded into government AI systems, given that voters can replace an administration but not necessarily its AI legacies.", "body_md": "President [Donald Trump’s](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump) administration scored a quiet [diplomatic](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/diplomacy) win this week. G20 innovation ministers reached consensus on the Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies, endorsing pro-innovation policy frameworks, foundational research, commercialization, and trusted deployment. The instinct is sound: Washington should not treat every new technology as an excuse to build another regulator.\n\nBut as government itself [adopts AI](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/artificial-intelligence), there is a prior democratic question: If voters can replace an administration, can its successor also replace the automated policies it leaves behind?\n\n## Stay informed.Stay ahead.\n\nJoin Washington Examiner for unlimited access to the news, analysis, and commentary that matter most.\n\n[See Options](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/subscribe/digital/)\n\nAlready a member? [Log in](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sign-in/)\n\n  Already a print subscriber?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-fought-unelected-bureaucrats-now-theyre-being-coded-into-immortality", "canonical_source": "https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4714574/trump-government-ai-policy-reversibility/", "published_at": "2026-09-08 14:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 14:26:21.082139+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Donald Trump", "G20"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-fought-unelected-bureaucrats-now-theyre-being-coded-into-immortality", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-fought-unelected-bureaucrats-now-theyre-being-coded-into-immortality.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-fought-unelected-bureaucrats-now-theyre-being-coded-into-immortality.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-fought-unelected-bureaucrats-now-theyre-being-coded-into-immortality.jsonld"}}