United States President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that would establish lenient federal rules for artificial intelligence companies and overrule regulations at the state level, he said today.
A draft version of the order last month reportedly said these federal regulations would be “minimally burdensome” to encourage U.S. companies’ dominance in the AI sector. Trump will sign the executive order this week, he wrote on Truth Social.
“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,” Trump wrote.
“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.”
Last month’s draft order would direct the U.S. Attorney General to form a litigation task force to challenge states’ AI regulations, per CNN.
Trump reviewed a new near-final draft of the executive order over the weekend, according to National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.
The Senate overwhelmingly voted down a 10-year moratorium on enforcing state-level AI regulations in July, which would have been part of the domestic policy bill formerly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Trump also recommended last month that Congress add federal AI standards that would override state rules to this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) defence policy package.
The newly-released final version of the NDAA does not include these federal AI rules, with Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise saying “that wasn't the best place for this to fit”. Congressional Republicans are aiming to pass the NDAA before the end of the year.
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