“This Executive Order establishes the commitment of the United States to sustain and enhance America’s dominance in AI to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security,” Trump said in the order.
Repealing Biden-era AI restrictions
The new order reverses a 2023 executive order by then-President Joe Biden that imposed stringent regulations on AI developers. Biden’s policy required companies to conduct safety testing and share results with the federal government before releasing AI systems with potential risks to national security, public health, or the economy.
“The Biden AI Executive Order established unnecessarily burdensome requirements for companies developing and deploying AI that would stifle private sector innovation and threaten American technological leadership,” the executive order stated.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
