Too dumb for AI
September 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM by Dr. Drang
I’ll admit that the first thing I looked into regarding yesterday’s “Super Intelligence” meeting at the White House was whether Tim Cook was there. He wasn’t, which was probably a relief to Tim, even though it’s also an admission that Apple isn’t considered a player in AI. By anyone, not even the idiots in the Trump administration.
You’ve probably seen the stupid misspelling above Trump’s signature on the “morally binding” agreement that came out of the meeting.
Yes, he signed it as the “President of Unites States” and then proudly posted it to Truth Social. I can’t imagine the agreement means anything, as you’d be hard-pressed to find a single moral shared among the people in the meeting. I will say, though, that Jensen Huang’s signature is pretty spiffy.
As for who was at the meeting, Trump also posted this seating chart, which hurts to look at:
Click the image to see it at full size, if you dare. Also, don’t feel obligated to follow either of the Truth Social links; I’m including them only because I feel an obligation to give credit—or in this case blame.
Lots of the images Trump posts are AI-generated, but I find it hard to believe that any AI system would produce something with this many graphical errors:
- The chairs on the left side of the table are vertically offset from those on the right side, even though there are the same number on each side. Poor Will Scharf is nearly off the end.
- The chairs on the left are distinctly farther from the table than the chairs on the right.
- The vertical spaces between chairs on a given side aren’t equal. The seats near the ends are closer to one another than the seats near the center.
- The two lines of chairs aren’t horizontally aligned. This was perhaps the smallest mistake, and you probably can’t see it unless you zoom in, but what drawing app wouldn’t automatically align the items?
- The names and chairs aren’t aligned vertically. You’d expect the names to be centered vertically with the chairs, and many of them are at least close to that, but once you see Alex Karp and Andrew Ferguson you’ll notice several similar misalignments.
- The names on the left side should be right-aligned but aren’t. Susie Wiles is way out of her chair, while David Sacks has nearly crashed into his.
- Similarly, the names on the right side should be left-aligned but aren’t. See Richard Walters and Sanjay Mehrotra for the most extreme misalignments.
And then there’s the best one:
- The chairs are facing away from the table.
The meeting probably would have been better for all of us if this had been so.