President Donald Trump vowed to repeal the order during campaigning and in his presidential platform
By Natalie Alms
President Donald Trump rolled back former President Joe Biden’s executive order focused on artificial intelligence just hours after being inaugurated.
It’s just one of nearly 80 Biden-era executive actions Trump wiped away with his own, new executive order on Monday.
Trump’s move to kill Biden’s sweeping AI order is not unexpected. The 2024 Republican platform called the order “dangerous” and said that it “imposes radical leftwing ideas on the development of this technology.”
The tech-focused order did have some controversial aspects, like requiring developers to share details about potentially risky models with the government by invoking the Defense Production Act.
It also set out guardrails for how the federal government uses AI.
New research from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence found progress in agencies’ implementation of governance requirements as compared to the spotty rollout of previous executive orders from the Trump administration, which the Biden White House kept on the books.
