President Donald Trump signed an executive decree on artificial intelligence on Thursday which will revoke previous government policies, his order indicates “acting as an obstacles to American IA innovation”.
To maintain world leadership in AI technology“We have to develop AI systems that are free from ideological biases or modified social agendas,” said Trump’s order.
The new order does not appoint existing policies which hamper the development of the AI but aims to find and review “all policies, directives, regulations, orders and other actions taken” following former President Joe Biden Perform an executive decree of the AI In 2023, which Trump canceled on Monday. All these actions in the Biden era must be suspended if they do not correspond to the new Trump directive that AI should “promote human development, economic competitiveness and national security”.
Last year, the Biden administration has issued a policy directive That said, American federal agencies must show that their artificial intelligence tools do not harm the public or keep them using them. Trump’s order orders the White House to revise and reissue these directives, which affect the way agencies acquire AI tools and use them.
Biden’s decree, the Trump administration, said: “has established unnecessarily binding requirements for companies that develop and deploy an AI that would suffocate private sector innovation and threaten American technological leadership.”
Trump’s order also calls for the development of an AI action plan within 180 days. The management of the work will be a small group of managers of the White House technology and sciences, including a new special advisor for AI and Crypto – a role that Trump has Given to venture capital And the former director of Paypal, David Sacks.
Trump has repealed Biden railing in 2023 for AI of rapid development AI technology only after returning to the White House on Monday.
The new actions threaten to erase some of the efforts of the Biden administration – defended by the president of the time, Kamala Harris – to limit the use of the government of the types of AI tools which were noted unjustly according to of the race, of the genre or handicapmedical diagnostic chatbots gushing from false information to face recognition technology linked to unjustified arrests black men.
Until Thursday, it was not clear if Trump planned to replace Biden’s signature policy with his own order. Trump had also signed decrees on AI during his previous mandate, including a 2019 order ordering federal agencies to prioritize research and development in AI which is still in books.
Alondra Nelson, former interim director of the White House and Technological Office under Biden, said that Trump’s order seemed “back” because agencies would be responsible for examining the initiatives “which already help People, with an implicit intention to relax them. “”
IA policies of the Biden administration, she added, aimed to protect both innovation and the public.
“In 60 days, we will know what rights and security of the Americans that the Trump administration believe deserves to be protected in the AI age, and if there will be a level playground for each technologist, developer and Innovative or simply billionaire technology, “said Nelson.
A large part of the Biden ordinance in 2023 sparked a sprint through government agencies to study the impact of AI on everything, Cybersecurity risks To its effects on education, workplaces and public benefits, ensuring that AI tools do not harm people. This work is largely done.
A major room that remained – until Trump cancels it on Monday – was a requirement that technological companies build most powerful The AI models share details with the government on the functioning of these systems before they are unleashed to the public.
Trump’s order focuses on “Florishing Human” echoes the language of the long -standing promise of his campaign to cancel the Biden AI policy once in the White House. He also conforms to the ideas adopted by Trump’s advisor, Elon Musk, who warned the dangers of what he calls “AI awake” which reflects liberal prejudices.
In a statement, the Americans for responsible innovation, a non -profit organization, said that Trump had “clearly indicated from the first day that his absolute priority on AI is by innovating the rest of the world”.
“Today’s executive order is a space reserved until the administration has the possibility of developing a complete strategy to execute this vision,” said the executive director of the organization Eric Gastfriend.
The agencies had already frozen work on AI policies launched by the last administration following Trump’s repeal of the Biden decree on Monday, said Gastfriend.
“This new investigation should not surprise,” he said.
