An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump
From the People of Albuquerque — and the Future Builders of America

 

 

Mr. President,

You have spoken boldly of America entering a new golden age. We believe you — and we want to help you build it. But to do that, you must understand something that no one else is talking about: our youth have been systematically separated from the technology they use every day.

They live inside phones they don’t control.
They play games they don’t understand.
They use apps they can’t build — because they were never taught how.

This wasn’t an accident.
It was a coordinated effort — by corporations, bureaucrats, and gatekeepers — to keep the American people passive, distracted, and locked out of the future.

If this is truly to be America’s golden age, then the foundation must be this:
Programmers. Builders. Technologists. And those who support them.

Not just working for tech giants — but building for themselves.
Not just using AI — but creating American AI for the free people of this country.

We are asking you — not for permission, not for funding — but for your voice.

Call for the people to reclaim intelligence.
Call for our children to learn what the machine is and how to master it.
Call for open models, open hardware, open tools — and let the people own the future.

 

 

 

That data — the foundation of artificial intelligence — belongs to us.

 

The internet was born in America.
It was built by the hands of our engineers, filled with the thoughts of our people, and spread by our children across the world.

Now the very same data — our conversations, our knowledge, our culture — has been scraped, ingested, and locked away by billion-dollar AI companies.
They built their models on our minds, and now they rent that intelligence back to us for a fee.

This is not innovation. This is theft.
That information belongs to the American people — and to the citizens of the world.
We are not asking for handouts. We are demanding restoration.
We want open access to the intelligence we helped create.
We want AI that serves the people, not corporations.
We want our children to learn how it works — not be trapped behind its glossy interface.

 

 

 

This isn’t just about theft. This is about destiny.

 

About the meaning of renaissance itself — not just in history, but in philosophy.

Philosophers are not meant to reflect the world as it is, but to imagine what it could become.
And in that spirit — as Americans, as builders, as free thinkers — we say:

The world could be one where every citizen contributes to intelligence.
Where the machine is not a tool of the elite, but a canvas for the people. Let the next golden age not be driven by a handful of companies locking away data…
…but by a nation of minds, young and old, coding together in pursuit of something better.

You may hear arguments that these companies had a right to fence off the data they trained on —
that they refined it, packaged it, and made it profitable.

But Mr. President —
We are not asking what is profitable.
We are asking what is noble.
What is just.
What is worthy of America.

 

 

 

Mr. President,

 

This is bigger than technology.

AI is not just a tool — it is the foundation for a new kind of society. One where systems no longer need to be enforced from above, but can be built and maintained by the people themselves.

We are talking about open-source infrastructure — systems created, modified, and expanded not by corporations, but by communities.
Imagine a version of DoorDash where restaurants, drivers, and customers all interact freely — not through a corporate middleman, but through a shared platform they all helped build.
Imagine fiat corporations — not registered in Delaware, but written in code.
Transparent. Forkable. Sovereign.

Where kids grow up adding to these systems, contributing code like others once carved names into trees.
Where forking is not rebellion — it’s evolution.
Where help is real, not another layer of monetized dependency.

This is not a dream. This is not fiction. This is what America could be — if the people are allowed to own intelligence.

But if the current trajectory continues, we won’t just lose the tools — we’ll lose our autonomy.

We will be surrounded by systems that demand our attention, our data, our time — all while offering nothing back but isolation.

We will live in a cage of services — rings within rings — until freedom becomes a memory and sovereignty becomes a crime.

We ask you to prevent that future.
Stand with the people. Declare that AI, like air and language, belongs to us all.
Call for a new public frontier — a Presidential AI Sovereignty Act.
Empower open-source development. Protect community infrastructure.
And remind the world that in America, intelligence will never be owned — only shared, forged, and passed forward. 

 

 

 

And yes — the irony is not lost on us.

 

This letter was written using AI.
But that’s the point: we’re not afraid of these tools.
We don’t hate them. We love them.

We’ve waited our whole lives for this moment — for a world where the mind could meet the machine, where ideas could live beyond paper, where a teenager could build an empire from their bedroom.

We will not let that be stolen from us.
Not by corporations.
Not by cowards.
Not by silence.

We will build.
We will teach.
And we will not back down.

Signed,
The People of Albuquerque
Builders of the Free Future