With the stroke of a pen, U.S. President Donald Trump has thrown the tech industry—and America’s AI policy—into the center of a combustible new culture war. Framed as an effort to counter China’s bid for artificial intelligence supremacy, Trump’s trio of executive orders on AI seeks to loosen regulations, project American values into the algorithms of tomorrow, and, most controversially, “block woke AI” from entering the federal government. For companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and...