By Nick Robins-Early,Dara Kerr
Publication Date: 2025-12-12 00:47:00
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at halting all laws restricting artificial intelligence and preventing states from regulating the rapidly evolving technology. The order also creates a state task force whose “sole responsibility” will be to challenge states’ AI laws.
At a signing ceremony, the president emphasized AI companies’ enthusiasm to “invest” in the United States, saying, “If they had to get 50 different permits from 50 different states, you could forget about it.”
Earlier this year, Republicans failed to pass a similar 10-year moratorium on state laws regulating AI as part of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with the Senate voting 99-1 to remove that ban from the legislation. Trump’s order revives that effort, which failed after bipartisan opposition and Republican infighting, but as an order that lacks the force of law.
The regulation “Ensuring a national policy framework for artificial intelligence” is a victory…
