{"id":3597,"date":"2026-07-20T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:39:25","slug":"pentagon-official-calls-ex-white-house-ai-architect-village-idiot-in-china-policy-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3597","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Official Calls Ex-White House AI Architect \u2018Village Idiot\u2019 In China Policy Spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A senior Pentagon official publicly mocked former White House artificial intelligence adviser Dean Ball on Sunday over regulation of Chinese artificial intelligence models. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3595\">SCOTT MOREFIELD: Iranians Aren\u2019t the Only Ones With Crazy Apocalyptic Religious Beliefs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>War Department Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael unloaded on Ball \u2014 now a top executive at OpenAI \u2014 when Ball suggested the Trump administration should discourage use of Chinese-made AI by American companies, Axios reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery industry\/ecosystem has its supreme village idiot. [Dean Ball\u2019 is that for AI,\u201d Michael wrote in a Sunday post on X, explaining that restrictions on DeepSeek and High Flyer came from a 2026 act of Congress. \u201cDean Ball has perhaps the biggest gap between actual IQ and his own perceived IQ of anyone in the industry (about 40 points).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s open-source AI model, Moonshot AI\u2019s Kimi K3, was publicly released Thursday. Kimi is as powerful as OpenAI and Anthropic\u2019s systems and cheaper to produce, according to the Telegraph. <\/p>\n<p>Moonshot\u2019s servers were overwhelmed by users trying the new Kimi model, so the company paused new subscriptions on Sunday, the outlet reported. The model\u2019s code is free to download and modify. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>Kimi K3 ranked first for front-end coding Thursday, even beating Anthropic\u2019s Fable 5 and OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.6 Sol, according to AI testing platform Arena.<strong>(RELATED: Ex-Apple Engineer Found Secret Backdoor Into Tech Giant\u2019s Files \u2018So Funny\u2019 After Jumping Ship For Rival, Lawsuit Claims)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have nothing additional to offer and refer you back to Hon. Michael\u2019s X post,\u201d a War Department official told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3593\">\u2018Fraudulent, Biased And Misleading\u2019: Trump Rails Against NGO After It Put Out Bezos-Backed Climate Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe departments of war, transportation, energy, agriculture, commerce, NASA, and Congress have all blocked their employees from using Chinese AI, citing ill-justified claims of danger,\u201d Ball wrote on X Sunday morning, several hours before Michael\u2019s post. \u201cThis already has sent a message to regulated firms. All of this happened during this admin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>The White House, OpenAI, Michael and Ball each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure whether Dean Ball is confessing to a regulatory capture strategy or simply predicting this will happen (he now says the latter),\u201d David Sacks, a venture capitalist who served as Trump\u2019s first AI czar, wrote on X Sunday morning. \u201cEither way, the weaponization of regulatory uncertainty as a competitive tool should be completely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leading closed labs, already a duopoly in terms of AI model revenue, want the government to eliminate their open source competition,\u201d Sacks added.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes,\u201d Ball said in an X post about Moonshot\u2019s Kimi model. <\/p>\n<p>Ball, Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, served as Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology under President Donald Trump for four months in 2025, according to his biography. During his tenure, he created America\u2019s AI Action  in July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3591\">Drinking Coffee Is Actually Good For Your Heart, But There\u2019s A Catch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Pentagon official publicly mocked former White House artificial intelligence adviser Dean Ball on Sunday over Chinese AI regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[435,1183,29,751],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-ai","tag-artifical-intelligence","tag-china","tag-pentagon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pentagon Official Calls Ex-White House AI Architect \u2018Village Idiot\u2019 In China Policy Spat - 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