The president, like your bosses in the C-suite, wants to speed up AI adoption, and he’s hoping a smoother regulatory landscape and strong guardrails against “woke technology” is the way to achieve American AI dominance.

President Trump released his administration’s AI “action plan” and signed a set of executive orders aimed at curbing regulations that slow the development of infrastructure related to AI deployment, bolster efforts to export American AI models across the globe and secure American dominance in AI, and ban “woke AI” from the federal government.

“We’re still in the earliest days of one of the most important technological revolutions in the history of the world. Around the globe, everyone is talking about artificial intelligence,” President Trump said at an AI summit in Washington. “America is the country that started the AI race. And as President of the United States, I’m here today to declare that America is going to win it.”

For more on this AI action plan and its potential ramifications on workforce development, keep reading here.—AD

Move over, “Tell me your biggest weakness,” a new weird interview question has surfaced: “Can you wave?”

Not kidding.

AI-generated deepfakes and candidate fraud are growing in recruiting, and—in response—talent acquisition (TA) pros are learning new ways to suss out the fit of a candidate, and that assessment now must include, “Are you real?”

“Fraud hiring isn’t new…it’s really just evolved,” according to Julia Frament, Head of Global HR at IRONSCALES, a cybersecurity company specializing in email. “Before it was mostly misrepresentation, so candidates stretching titles or fabricating degrees, maybe borrowing experience…maybe ghosting verification, using fake references, using friends to pose as past managers.”

But now the toolbox for candidate fraud is expansive. ChatGPT can write up a perfect résumé and cover letter to match an opening; generative AI tools can create realistic images and content-like responses to interview questions; it’s also relatively easy to design a “real” LinkedIn page for a fake professional.

For more on the rapidly growing risks of candidate fraud, keep reading here.—AD

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Civil Rights, led by Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, held a hearing on July 24 to discuss the state and merits of DEI. The hearing largely focused on the racial component of DEI, and explored how the Trump administration is handling companies that continue DEI efforts under other names.

Schmitt began his opening statement by saying that DEI policies are meant to mainly hurt white, Christian men while others take over. Schmitt said that diversity officers and HR managers have set up a “victim hierarchy,” and that “DEI isn’t just illegal. It’s a fraudulent and cynical ideology from top to bottom built on layers of lies.”

Schmitt went on to say that people in favor of DEI programming are not concerned about equality. “Their entire mission is to elevate members of certain groups over members of other groups and remake America in their own image,” Schmitt said. “It’s about exclusion of the competent, the qualified, the meritorious when those people are members of the wrong race or sex.” Schmitt believes that DEI is about racial quotas (note: DEI programs are not focused on racial quotas, which are illegal).

The committee first interviewed Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice, who said she is in charge of protecting “the civil rights of all Americans against illegal DEI initiatives.”

For more on how the committee views employers that rebrand their DEI programs, keep reading here.—KP

Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: CEOs are bragging about shrinking headcount at their companies, including Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf, who said the bank’s workforce had decreased by 23% over the last 20 quarters and that it’s using “attrition as our friend.” (the Wall Street Journal)

Quote: “I feel trapped working, but I can’t stop working.”—Lydia Hinds, an 81-year-old in central Connecticut who says working part-time at a Home Depot store barely helps her and her 90-year-old husband scrape by (Business Insider)

Read: An inside look at a Nebraska-based meat packing company attempting to rebuild after ICE took half of its workforce during a raid. (the New York Times)

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