WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday during a roundtable event that the United States is leading in artificial intelligence development and it has to stay at the federal level.
“We’re leading artificial intelligence by a lot,” Trump said during a roundtable with business leaders. “”We’re writing rules and regulations. We want to keep it at the federal level so it’s simple for the companies.”
He said that he wants A.I. to be as simple as possible for companies since they are “competing with some very big sources.”
“We want to stay number one by a lot,” Trump said.
Trump said that the U.S. is also leading the world in building data centers and chip manufacturing facilities, which is a new capacity for A.I.
Earlier this week, Trump announced that he would sign an executive order to preempt state laws on A.I. safety and copyright.
“There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI. We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won’t last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS. THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS!” he wrote on TRUTH Social. “AI WILL BE DESTROYED IN ITS INFANCY! I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week. You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something. THAT WILL NEVER WORK!”
Some Republicans have advocated for states being allowed to make laws and regulate A.I. such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
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“There should not be a moratorium on states rights for AI,” she wrote on X last month. “States must retain the right to regulate and make laws on AI and anything else for the benefit of their state.Federalism must be preserved.”