U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for the development of artificial intelligence systems that are “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas” in his latest executive order.
The order, signed earlier today, is an effort to repeal previous U.S. government policies that some have interpreted as “barriers to American AI innovation.” Its chief aim is to overturn many of the policies, orders, regulations and directives that were initiated under Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden, who signed his own executive order regarding AI in 2023.
Trump rescinded Biden’s order, which contained a number of guardrails that U.S. companies were required to follow, on Monday, his first day in office. His action overruled a previous requirement that U.S. tech firms building the most powerful AI models should share details of those systems with the government before releasing them publicly.
The new directive states that any of the actions resulting from Biden’s order must be suspended if they don’t fit with the new President’s own vision of AI development that promotes “human flourishing, economic competitiveness and national security.”
Biden’s 2023 order initiated a number of White House-led studies on AI’s impact on various sectors of U.S. society, including workplaces, education, public benefits and cybersecurity risks, with a focus on ensuring that the technology doesn’t harm people.
However, Biden himself never built on those studies, so Trump’s order is calling for the development of a new AI action plan to be created within just 180 days. That task will fall to a team led by Trump’s new Special Adviser for AI and Crypto David Sacks, who worked as a venture capitalist and an executive for PayPal Holdings Inc.
During his election campaign, Trump vowed to overturn Biden’s AI policy the moment he returned to the White House, and his new order appears to make good on that promise. At the same time, it also echoes ideas promoted by Trump’s favorite tech adviser Elon Musk, who has previously warned against AI that contains liberal biases, terming it “woke AI.”
The nonprofit organization Americans for Responsible Innovation appeared supportive of Trump’s move, saying in a statement that the president has made it clear that AI is one of his top priorities, and that he wants to see the U.S. “out-innovating” its global rivals.
“Today’s executive order is a placeholder until the administration has a chance to develop a full strategy for executing that vision,” Eric Gastfriend, ARI’s executive director, told the Associated Press.
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