Trump administration won’t combat state AI laws in spite of everything

The Trump administration has been focusing on state-level AI regulation, with the president declaring in a social media post this week that the trade wants “one Federal Customary as a substitute of a patchwork of fifty State Regulatory Regimes.”

This comes after a 10-year ban on state AI regulation was initially included in Trump’s “Huge Stunning Invoice” earlier than finally getting removed by the Senate in a 99-1 vote. 

The thought then apparently took on a brand new kind, with the administration reportedly drafting an executive order that will set up an AI Litigation Process Pressure with a mission to problem state AI legal guidelines by means of lawsuits. States with contested AI legal guidelines would additionally reportedly be threatened with the lack of federal broadband funding.

Now, Reuters reviews that the executive order has been put on hold. If signed, the order would in all probability face vital opposition, together with from Republicans who previously criticized the proposed moratorium on state regulation.

AI regulation has additionally been a controversial subject in Silicon Valley, with some trade figures — particularly these within the Trump administration — attacking companies like Anthropic for supporting AI security payments together with California’s SB 53.