Critics said that AIs such as ChatGPT gave the same technique used by the White House when asked to design a global tariff policy.

Economist recreates White House’s numbers by taking a given country’s trade deficit with the US, dividing it by their total exports to the US and halving that number.

UTC): This article has been updated to correct the quote attributed to Wojtek Kopczuk There’s a crazy theory on social media that US President Donald Trump's newly announced reciprocal tariff plan — which hits all countries with a minimum 10% tariff — could have been designed by an artificial intelligence chatbot.