Trump Planning to Unleash Artificial Intelligence by Repealing Restrictions
"We will repeal Joe Biden's dangerous Executive Order that hinders AI innovation and imposes radical left-wing ideas on the development of this technology."
Donald Trump is now set to be the next president of the United States, blowing the future of AI regulation in this country wide open.
That's because Trump has promised to repeal the existing AI regulations implemented by outgoing President Joe Biden, which were arguably light to begin with. If Trump makes good on his promise, unchecked AI development may well be the order of the day.
"We will repeal Joe Biden's dangerous Executive Order that hinders AI innovation and imposes radical left-wing ideas on the development of this technology," Trump stated in his campaign platform. "In its place, Republicans support AI development rooted in free speech and human flourishing."
Through an executive order, the Biden administration passed its existing AI regulations in October 2023 using a national defense act from 1950 as justification, meaning in the eyes of his opponents they were already on tenuous legal ground. That's not really relevant now, though, since all Trump has to do is pass a counter-order to negate it.
The tech-bro-slash-accelerationist and conservative critique of the Biden AI order is mostly directed at two of its provisions, in Wired's analysis.
One lays out new requirements for how tech companies test and conduct risk assessments of their AI models, a practice known as "red-teaming." Under the Biden provision, companies developing large AI models are required to share all red-team test results to the federal government for review, assessing for things like how vulnerable the AIs are to being hacked. Critics paint this process as needlessly slowing down the pace of AI development and forcing companies to disclose their trade secrets.