White House · OpenAI · Mythos · China · Donald Trump · U.S. · The Guardian Technology
Musk and Zuckerberg, the Washington Post logged, signalled the president the order would hurt the economy and US advantage
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A draft of the proposed order highlights how watered-down the jettisoned order would have been, with explicit assurances that it would not “stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation”.
Key facts
- Super Pacs such as Leading the Future, which is backed by Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, and has amassed more than $125m, are set to spend huge sums pushing anti-regulation candidates and policies
- Musk and Zuckerberg, the Washington Post reported, warned the president the order would hurt the economy and US advantage in AI
- The president has publicly embraced industry leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman while appointing others such as Musk and Sacks to prominent government positions
- Less than a month after the first reports that the White House was considering vetting AI models, the prospect of the Trump administration creating any stringent AI regulations once again appears
Summary
Only hours before Donald Trump was set to sign a long-awaited executive order on Thursday that would have called for a government safety review of new artificial intelligence models before their release, the president abruptly backed out. During a meeting with reporters on Thursday, Trump cited both American dominance and competition with China and as his reasoning behind the reversal. “I didn’t like certain aspects of it, I postponed it,” Trump said of the executive order in the Oval Office. Trump’s postponing of the order was a victory for tech leaders who have long opposed AI regulation and spent millions lobbying against it. After a brief period in which the White House appeared concerned enough about potential security implications to consider restraints on frontier AI, Trump’s decision marks a return to his own earlier hands-off approach and signals a laissez-faire future.