{"id":539593,"date":"2026-03-23T01:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539593\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:42:21","slug":"trumps-new-ai-framework-raises-red-flags-for-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539593\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s New AI Framework Raises Red Flags for Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Friday, the Trump<\/a> administration released<\/a> its recommendations for Congress on a national policy regarding artificial intelligence<\/a>. The four-page bulleted document outlines general ideas for a legislative framework. While on the surface they seem to be vague calls for safety and free speech, some AI ethics experts are crying foul.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe guidelines outline some protections for the public, while allowing AI companies to ramp up innovation without the \u201cburden\u201d of strict guardrails. The six objectives call for child safety requirements while also talking about how residents shouldn\u2019t pay increased electricity for data center buildout, how the country can develop an AI-friendly workforce, and what state versus federal regulation on technology should look like. The framework says that Congress should make sure that state laws \u201cdo not govern areas better suited to the Federal Government or act contrary to the United States\u2019 national strategy to achieve global AI dominance.\u201d Overall, the framework recommends a light touch on AI regulation. Critics see the guidelines as a way Trump is trying to both protect Big Tech and gain control over which tech companies are targeted and censored.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\u2018A poison pill for states\u2019 rights\u2019\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tA notable point of contention in the proposed framework calls on lawmakers to \u201cpreempt state laws that impose undue burdens\u201d and \u201cprevent a fragmented patchwork of state regulations.\u201d President Donald Trump has tried to stifle efforts by states to regulate AI in the past, most recently with an executive order<\/a> in December, saying that state legislation was too \u201ccumbersome\u201d and was not allowing companies to innovate.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis roadmap is a poison pill for states\u2019 rights,\u201d says Rumman Chowdhury, a former U.S. science envoy for AI. \u201cBy dictating congressional behavior and again targeting state-level regulation, Trump is expanding presidential authority further.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn one section, the framework says that \u201cstates should not be permitted to penalize AI developers for a third party\u2019s unlawful conduct involving their models.\u201d This is a red flag for critics, who say this could result in a way to shield AI companies from being held liable for harms.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cAt a moment when a clear majority of Americans \u2014 across party lines \u2014 is asking for stronger guardrails on AI, this framework moves in the opposite direction, proposing to limit the ability of parents, consumers, and communities to hold technology companies accountable for the risks and harms their products cause,\u201d says Alondra Nelson, who previously led the Biden administration\u2019s Office of Science and Technology Policy.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe central criticism against the framework is Trump\u2019s effort to suppress state power when it comes to regulating AI technology by asking for new legislation that would limit the reach of current and future law.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is deep irony in this,\u201d says Nelson. \u201cStates have been acting as the laboratories of democracy they have always been, responding to real harms reported by their constituents, from algorithmic discrimination in hiring and lending to the exploitation of children by AI-powered platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe government claims that a patchwork of state laws creates confusion for business and ignores the global nature of AI development, an argument which one AI policy expert called \u201cweak.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are many cases where we have states making their own laws \u2014 education, insurance, drug laws, and even reproductive care now \u2014 and companies seem to manage just fine,\u201d says an AI policy expert who asked to remain anonymous because they hadn\u2019t received permission from their employer to speak to the press. The expert said states can move quickly, focus on what\u2019s important, and borrow and learn from each other when innovating on AI regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIn this very framework there are numerous other places \u2014 child safety, state use of AI, law enforcement use of AI \u2014 where the administration allows states to go their own way,\u201d they point out.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd while the first part of the proposal focuses on \u201cprotecting children and empowering parents,\u201d critics say its recommendations aren\u2019t specifically geared to holding AI companies accountable for protecting children.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt doesn\u2019t include reference to stronger proposals such as removing liability shields for AI companies when their products lead to harm to minors,\u201d says Steven Feldstein, technology researcher and author of The Rise of Digital Repression.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt looks like more of the same for this administration,\u201d Feldstein continued, summing it up as \u201clight touch regulations on AI, keep states at bay from enacting their own rules, free up companies to innovate and trust they won\u2019t release models that will bring harm, and vague details about how this will end up coming together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tA Bid for More Control\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSome critics who spoke with Rolling Stone said they feel like the proposal\u2019s call for federal preemption is a red herring covering the Trump administration\u2019s real goal of expanding presidential authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe federal government wants more centralized power over how the companies design their systems,\u201d stated one expert.<\/p>\n

\n\tChowdhury agrees. \u201cThis AI bill should be viewed as part of his ongoing strategy to consolidate power in his presidency,\u201d she says, bringing up Trump\u2019s executive order from December, which she described as the president mandating \u201ca list of \u2018onerous\u2019 state-level legislation that he means to attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother section of the framework that has raised alarms is onewhich addresses preventing censorship and protecting free speech.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCongress should prevent the United States government from coercing technology providers, including AI providers, to ban, compel, or alter content based on partisan or ideological agendas,\u201d reads the proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCritics see this language as intentionally vague, which leaves the door open for Trump to be the judge and jury of what he does or doesn\u2019t like, without any specific standard, giving him a type of invisible control over companies. As the AI policy expert who asked to remain nameless characterizes it: \u201cBy threatening those who develop AI models with vague and incoherent language about \u2018ideological bias\u2019 that cannot be evaluated in any meaningful way, the administration is saying, \u2018I, and only I, will decide what\u2019s appropriate for your models to produce, and I\u2019ll use whatever rationale I feel like to do so.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNelson says that acting as if AI tools and systems are completely neutral in their ideology, betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of generative AI.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEvery model encodes assumptions, every tool reflects choices, and every output carries a point of view,\u201d says Nelson. \u201cThere is no neutral baseline to protect. There is only transparency about those choices, or the lack of it \u2014 along with robust laws to ensure this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAdditionally, Nelson points to a recent NBC News poll<\/a> that found the majority of registered voters believe the risks of AI outweigh its benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAmericans are telling us, clearly and consistently, what they want: safe, ethical, and accountable AI,\u201d says Nelson. \u201cThis framework offers them something else entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, the Trump administration released its recommendations for Congress on a national policy regarding artificial intelligence. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74,3479],"class_list":{"0":"post-539593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}