Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order

US President Donald Trump is considering signing an enforcement bid that would question to situation authorities efforts to modulate artificial quality done lawsuits and the withholding national funding, WIRED has learned.

A draught of the bid viewed by WIRED directs US Attorney General Pam Bondi to make an “AI Litigation Task Force,” whose intent is to writer states successful tribunal for passing AI regulations that allegedly interruption national laws governing things similar escaped code and interstate commerce.

Trump could motion the order, which is presently titled “Eliminating State Law Obstruction of National AI Policy,” arsenic aboriginal arsenic this week, according to 4 sources acquainted with the matter. A White House spokesperson told WIRED that “discussion astir imaginable enforcement orders is speculation.”

The bid says that the AI Litigation Task Force volition enactment with respective White House exertion advisors, including the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto David Sacks, to find which states are violating national laws elaborate successful the order. It points to authorities regulations that “require AI models to change their truthful outputs” oregon compel AI developers to “report accusation successful a mode that would interruption the First Amendment oregon immoderate different proviso of the Constitution,” according to the draft.

The bid specifically cites precocious enacted AI information laws successful California and Colorado that necessitate AI developers to people transparency reports astir however they bid models, among different provisions. Big Tech commercialized groups, including Chamber of Progress—which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Google, and OpenAI—have vigorously lobbied against these efforts, which they picture arsenic a “patchwork” attack to AI regularisation that hampers innovation. These groups are lobbying alternatively for a airy interaction acceptable of national laws to usher AI progress.

“If the President wants to triumph the AI race, the American radical request to cognize that AI is harmless and trustworthy,’ says Cody Venzke, elder argumentation counsel astatine the American Civil Liberties Union. “This draught lone undermines that trust.”

The bid comes arsenic Silicon Valley has been upping the unit connected proponents of authorities AI regulations. For example, a ace PAC funded by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman, and Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale precocious announced a run against New York Assembly subordinate Alex Bores, the writer of a authorities AI information bill.

House Republicans person besides renewed their effort to walk a broad moratorium connected states introducing laws regulating AI aft an earlier mentation of the measurement failed.