Among the major shocks of this month’s Trump administration announcement of massive tariffs slapped on dozens of countries worldwide lies a less prominent but arguably more important one: The entire tariff scheme may just have been produced by artificial intelligence.
The fallout from Liberation Day — what the White House labeled April 2, the day it proclaimed its global tariff schedule — was immediate. In the wake of tariffs ranging as high as 47% on some countries, financial markets seized up from Tokyo to Tel Aviv to Toronto. The S&P 500 briefly entered bear market territory for 2025. The retirement accounts of tens of millions of Americans nosedived. (Markets have since at least partially recovered with the White House’s pledge on April 9 that “reciprocal”
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