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Trump abruptly scraps signing of landmark executive order regulating AI
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President Donald Trump abruptly delayed the signing of a landmark executive order on AI on Thursday afternoon, telling reporters that he had pulled the order at the last minute because it could interfere with American competitiveness on AI.
Key facts
- President Donald Trump abruptly delayed the signing of a landmark executive order on AI on Thursday afternoon, telling reporters that he had pulled the order at the last minute because it
- A recent announcement about expanded pre-deployment testing between CAISI and Microsoft, Google and xAI was removed from NIST’s website several days after it was posted
- On his first day in office, Trump repealed one of President Joe Biden’s key AI executive orders, which laid out its own method for establishing which AI models were considered most advanced
- We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump, answering reporters’ questions in the Oval Office
Summary
“We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump, answering reporters’ questions in the Oval Office during an unrelated event, said about America’s AI industry. The order, reportedly in development for weeks, was expected to direct federal agencies to shore up key cybersecurity defenses and work with the world’s leading AI companies on a voluntary basis to test advanced models before they are available to the public, according to two people familiar with the draft.
In a news conference Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance said that the administration was prioritizing “protecting people’s data” and “people’s privacy” in the wake of Mythos’ debut.