Citing a « patchwork of 50 different regulatory regimes » and « ideological bias », President Trump wants rules to be set at a federal level
US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at banning individual states from regulating AI in a move one expert said could create a “regulatory vacuum” in the country.
In a move welcomed by a host of AI companies, Trump said he plans to create a federal AI Litigation Task Force responsible for challenging states’ AI laws.
« State-by-state regulation, by definition, creates a patchwork of 50 different regulatory regimes that makes compliance more challenging, particularly for start-ups. Second, state laws are increasingly responsible for requiring entities to embed ideological bias within models », he said.
« My administration must act with the Congress to ensure that there is a minimally burdensome national standard — not 50 discordant state ones. »
The order also calls for the Secretary of Commerce to publish an evaluation of state AI laws that conflict with national AI policy priorities – and withhold non-deployment Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) funding from any offenders.
Trump is of course keen to encourage AI firms to invest in the US – something he believes state-by-state regulation will hamper.
States including Colorado and New York have already passed laws regulating AI, with California set to require the biggest AI firms to publish plans for limiting the risks.
