US President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order that prevents individual states from enforcing their own artificial intelligence regulations
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will withhold federal broadband funding from states whose laws to regulate artificial intelligence are judged by his administration to be holding back American dominance in the technology."We want to have one central source of approval," Trump told reporters, flanked by top advisers, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, arguing that 50 different regulatory regimes hamper the growth of the nascent industry.Â
U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter prior to signing an executive order on AI next to Sriram Krishnan, Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX), U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and David O. Sacks, Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Dec. 11.
Courtney Rozen and Andrea Shalal in Washington and Jody Godoy in New York; Additional reporting by Gram Slattery in Washington; Editing by Jamie Freed and Stephen Coates
U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter prior to signing an executive order on AI next to Sriram Krishnan, Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX), U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and David O. Sacks, Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Dec. 11.
