{"id":40602,"date":"2025-12-12T00:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/trump-signs-executive-order-restricting-states-ability-to-regulate-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:11:37","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-restricting-states-ability-to-regulate-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/trump-signs-executive-order-restricting-states-ability-to-regulate-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive order restricting states&#8217; ability to regulate AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6936dad904d0f0a114f192fc?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\"\/><figcaption>Trump has said that AI would be &quot;destroyed in its infancy&quot; if companies have to comply with 50 different sets of state regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Morigi\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump has signed an executive order aimed at establishing a federal framework for regulating AI.<\/li>\n<li>The executive order limits states&#039; ability to regulate AI individually.<\/li>\n<li>The effort has generated significant backlash, including from fellow Republicans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that limits states&#039; ability to regulate AI individually.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2025 legislative session, more than 1,000 AI-related bills were proposed across all 50 states. The executive order signed by Trump aims at establishing a federal framework for regulating AI, rather than requiring tech companies to comply with various state laws.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s a massive industry. We&#039;re leading China. We&#039;re leading everybody by a tremendous amount,&quot; Trump said during the signing. &quot;But one of the things that it has is you have to have a central source of approval. When they need approvals on things, they have to come to one source. They can&#039;t go to California, New York, and various other places.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on Monday, prior to the signing, that the order aimed to ensure there&#039;s only one &quot;One Rulebook&quot; for AI in the US, stating that the technology would be &quot;destroyed in its infancy&quot; if companies had to comply with different regulations across all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won&#039;t last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS,&quot; Trump wrote on Truth Social. &quot;You can&#039;t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something. THAT WILL NEVER WORK!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While the full text of the order had not yet been released at the time of publication, a draft executive order seen by Business Insider last month would have directed the Department of Justice to sue states for having &quot;onerous&quot; AI laws.<\/p>\n<p>One thing <em>is<\/em> clear: Trump is likely to provoke backlash from members of his own party if he follows through with this, as many Republicans have been eager to protect states&#039; rights when it comes to AI.<\/p>\n<p>The fault lines on this issue became clear over the summer, when Republicans tried to enact a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations via the &quot;Big Beautiful Bill.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>That provision was ultimately watered down over time before being stripped from the bill in a 99-1 vote in the Senate during the final hours before passage.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recently called for Republicans to include a version of that provision in a must-pass annual defense bill, but that didn&#039;t come to pass. On Sunday, lawmakers released the text of that bill, and it did not include the provision.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the Trump administration has sought other ways to prevent states from enacting AI laws. An &quot;AI Action Plan&quot; released by the White House in July calls for withholding federal funding from states with &quot;burdensome&quot; AI laws.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has said that AI would be &quot;destroyed in its infancy&quot; if companies have to comply with 50 different sets of state regulations. Paul Morigi\/Getty Images Trump has signed an executive order aimed at establishing a federal framework for regulating AI. The executive order limits states&#039; ability to regulate AI individually. 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