Biden puts AI and climate at the top of the list for Trump administration

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President Biden salutes after delivering a speech about his foreign policy achievements at the State Department on Jan. 13, 2025.

President Biden salutes after delivering a speech about his foreign policy achievements at the State Department on Jan. 13, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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After President Biden rhymed off a long list of foreign policy accomplishments in a valedictory address on Monday, he called on his successor to carry forward his work in two specific — and somewhat surprising — areas: artificial intelligence and climate.

The two items were not on the radar when Biden, 82, entered public life — and they were overshadowed during his four years at the White House by the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, pushback against China, and the rough exit of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

President Biden signs a new executive order on artificial intelligence on Oct. 30. Vice President Harris will talk about the order in London with world leaders this week.

But Biden singled out those two issues as having the potential to shape the future, and urged President-elect Donald Trump to carry them forward.

"On artificial intelligence, we are the lead. We must stay in the lead. We must not offshore artificial intelligence, as he once did with computer chips and other critical technologies," Biden said.

"AI has the power to reshape economies, governments, national security, entire societies," he said.

The Biden administration says some efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions won’t go away after President-elect Trump takes office. Renewable energy projects, like the Block Island Wind Farm off the Rhode Island coast, will continue to operate and others in the development pipeline now will continue to be built.

The only overt criticism he leveled at the incoming Trump administration came when he talked about skepticism among some members of the incoming team about clean energy.

"They don't even believe climate change is real. I think they come from a different century. They're wrong. They are dead wrong. It's the single greatest existential threat to humanity," Biden said.

He said China was working to dominate the market, and said the United States must not allow that to happen.

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