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Dive brief:
- President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise repeal ancient President Joe Biden Executive order focused on AI, issued in October 2023.
- The executive order required developers of advanced A.I present safety results to the federal government. The provisions also called for the establishment of standardsthe changes in the recruitment process and the creation of the US Artificial Intelligence Security Institute but it stopped short of imposing consequences for non-compliant companies.
- Analysts and industry experts expect President Trump to govern AI with a light regulatory touch. Big tech CEOs included Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg i Google’s Sundar Pichaiattended the inauguration monday.
Diving knowledge:
The Trump administration spent its first day in the White House enacting a sweeping regulatory overhaul. The executive order of October 2023 is one of them more than 70 The Biden-era directives were overturned by President Trump.
Trump appointed Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar, tasked with guiding administration policy. Analysts suggested that the selection turned out to be another sign of ease restrictions on innovation in AI.
Lighter federal oversight of the technology could lead to a push for state-level directives, they say Jennifer Everett, partner in the technology and privacy group at Alston & Bird.
“We’ve been telling companies that use or develop AI that while you might see the federal government and the new administration slowing down enforcement, you might see the states filling the gap,” Everett told CIO Dive.
Business leaders and CIOs are aware of the implications of the regulatory movement states like CaliforniaColorado, Oregon, Montana and Tennessee. The growing patchwork will likely introduce more complexities for businesses as they aim for compliance.
Global operations also face a running clock in terms of enforcement of the AI Law of the European Union.
US business leaders could face AI oversight as part of antitrust and intellectual property protection efforts. The Federal Trade Commission is now headed by Andrew Ferguson, who it was announced to December as President Trump’s pick and previously served as commissioner of the agency.
Ferguson gets it Lina Khanwhose mandate was marked by a focus on Big Tech and its business practices. In one of its latest moves during the Biden administration, the FTC published a report friday in its study of Amazon, Google and Microsoft’s partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI.
Ferguson issued a concurring and dissenting statement Friday, offering some insight into the FTC’s potential direction moving forward.
“For one thing, the Commission doesn’t have to charge anyone to regulate AI,” Ferguson said. “Such regulation could strangle this nascent technology in its cradle or shift the development of the technology to foreign states hostile to our national interests.”
“On the other hand, the Commission must continue to monitor competition, ensuring that Big Tech incumbents do not control AI innovators in order to eliminate any potential competitive threats,” he added.
The withdrawal of the executive order paves the way for streamlined innovation in a less federally regulated environment, but that doesn’t mean the federal government’s focus on AI has diminished, according to Lydia, senior director of Gartner. Clougherty Jones.
“This includes continued public and private partnerships for active planning and building of AI infrastructure and capabilities to safeguard US competitiveness and technology leadership status.” Clougherty Jones he said in an email to CIO Dive.
