Public opinion is predominantly negative regarding Trump's approach to AI regulation. Many commenters express concern that his actions may prioritize corporate interests, potentially leading to harmful implications for society, including risks to civil liberties and jobs. The sentiment reflects a strong desire for transparency and accountability in AI governance, with fears that partisan ideologies could influence the regulation negatively.

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States rights until it's something that financially inconveniences Republican donors.

veemonjosh

Nothing says something really should be done like Republicans blocking it.

rednap_howell

Executive order to overrule state laws. What a dumpster fire.

geoffvro

States will file that in the appropriate receptacle.  🗑️

Wine_Women_Song

&gt; He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

Ananiujitha

But also “state’s rights!” - conservatives trying to figure out which button to press again

JackBurton___Me

AI raises the price of our water and electricity so it can find clever new ways to put millions of Americans out of work.   In other words, it's good, old-fashioned Christian Conservatism!

jail-djt

Trump is the most ineffective President ever.  He and his party control all branches of government, and all Republicans can deliver is the Big Beautiful Bill and his executive orders.  No legislation.

But perhaps that is enough for his base

DirectLow421

didn't donald have an awful lot of things to say about executive orders?


maybe back in the before fore times... when other people were president 


he seems to be issuing more EOs than any other president I can remember 


oh well, guess it doesn't matter anymore....

cuminmyshitsock

His executive orders on it are meaningless

Kgaset

Trump signs EO requiring all citizens to buy one big mac and large fries once a week.  

This has about the same legal weight as the AI EO.

TintedApostle

Cuckerberg, Altman, and Thiel must’ve given the Piggie n chief more money

Peroovian

Plants are going up in areas where water is already strained and there's not enough to power to supply the demand. Now add to all those issues AI is so over-leveraged as it is and this new piece of legislation will make the bubble even bigger on nothing more than pure speculation AI will be worth it. My question is, who's going to be willing to pay for it how much is being spent. I don't see it myself but maybe the "magnificent seven" know something I don't

Thund3rbolt

It means nothing and democrat governors and states will ignore it. 

StormbreakerHC

So someone leaked the draft to Politico. Nice.

Supposedly it:

* directs the DOJ to file lawsuits against state laws, challenging that such state laws are preempted by federal laws
* potentially restrict federal broadband funds to states who have "objectionable" AI laws
* direct the FCC to investigate "whether state AI laws that 'require alterations to the truthful outputs of AI models' are blocked by the FTC Act"
* order the FCC to look into adopting an AI rule that would preempt conflicting state laws

SwimmingThroughHoney

&gt; Government lawyers would be directed to challenge state laws on the grounds that they unconstitutionally regulate interstate commerce, are preempted by existing federal regulations or otherwise at the attorney general’s discretion.

Could the feds take this same position WRT laws regarding porn site age verification? Or, since they're letting states enact such laws, could that allowance interfere with their position on the AI laws?

cmhbob

Executive Order, that’s not a law, to block a state law, that is a law. Good luck with that

2HDFloppyDisk

Doesn't work like that, shitbag. Your Executive Orders have all the legal weight of inter-office memoranda, and if your grotesque cadre of whinging ball-swallowers had a spine or a brain cell between them they might have told you that.

4ivE

EO is not law.

It wasn’t passed by congress so he can fuck off.

PopPalsUnited

US President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order that would seek to [challenge state efforts](https://www.wired.com/story/a-political-battle-is-brewing-over-data-centers/) to regulate [artificial intelligence](https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-sam-altman-ai-regulation-trump/) through lawsuits and the withholding federal funding, WIRED has learned.

A draft of the order viewed by WIRED directs US Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an “AI Litigation Task Force,” whose purpose is to sue states in court for passing AI regulations that allegedly violate federal laws governing things like free speech and interstate commerce.

Trump could sign the order, which is currently titled “Eliminating State Law Obstruction of National AI Policy,” as early as this week, according to four sources familiar with the matter. A White House spokesperson told WIRED that “discussion about potential executive orders is speculation.”

The order says that the AI Litigation Task Force will work with several White House technology advisors, including the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto [David Sacks](https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-industry-hails-david-sacks-czar/), to determine which states are violating federal laws detailed in the order. It points to state regulations that “require AI models to alter their truthful outputs” or compel AI developers to “report information in a manner that would violate the First Amendment or any other provision of the Constitution,” according to the draft.

The order specifically cites recently enacted AI safety laws in California and Colorado that require AI developers to publish transparency reports about how they train models, among other provisions. Big Tech trade groups, including Chamber of Progress—which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Google, and OpenAI—have vigorously lobbied against these efforts, which they describe as a “patchwork” approach to AI regulation that hampers innovation. These groups are lobbying instead for a light touch set of federal laws to guide AI progress.

Read the full story here: [https://www.wired.com/story/trump-prepares-executive-order-challenging-state-ai-laws/](https://www.wired.com/story/trump-prepares-executive-order-challenging-state-ai-laws/)

wiredmagazine

[Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution)

DixonButz

Every time there is an event at the White House, Pigvomit signs a new executive order for his benefactors. Asinine corruption out in the open. 

Guilty_Mood_240

Executive orders aren't laws and can't make up laws that don't exist.


The ability to sue doesn't mean you're going to win.

gentlemantroglodyte

EndsWithJusSayin

If it's just an executive order, and not an actual federal law passed by congress, what's to keep states from ignoring the order? I thought executive orders mostly apply to the executive branch?

solamente_en_cristo

peter thiel spent all last month giving speeches to the mega rich saying that he and other billionaires are in a literal war against the anti-christ. apparently a trait of the anti-christ is anyone who opposes ai. 

  
why are the mega rich fascists pushing ai so hard? it's already the default first result on every search engine. it's already replacing the algorithms that run social media platforms. 

because ai can curate everyones reality. every headline, every event, no matter how small, can now be framed by ai and customized to have the highest likelihood of convincing you personally. when you scroll the internet, ai will be building a profile, so that it can begin to shape your thoughts and beliefs. 

this is the future of propaganda. total thought control.

Virbillion

I don’t think Executive Orders can do jack shit with State Law.

Pretty sure executive orders can't accomplish federal preemption. So it's as effective as most of his other EOs.

PersonToPerson

&gt;	as well as research which states may become ineligible for the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, which funds rural broadband access for several states.

So, he’s going to take away congressionally approved funds again, break the law, again and Congress will do nothing to protect the law, again.

SpottedDicknCustard

President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an “AI Litigation Task Force” overseen by the Attorney General, “whose sole responsibility shall be to challenge State AI laws.”

According to a draft of the order obtained by The Verge, the Task Force would be able to sue states whose laws are deemed to obstruct the growth of the AI industry, citing California’s recent laws on AI safety and “catastrophic risk”, and a Colorado law that prevents “algorithmic discrimination”. The Task Force will occasionally consult with a group of White House Special Advisors, including David Sacks, billionaire venture capitalist and the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto.

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/824608/trump-executive-order-ai-state-laws

theverge

So once again Trump tries to act like a Dictator and shows us he has no clue how Government works.

More-Conversation931

TriflingHotDogVendor

It’s great how billionaires are just non-consensually forcing their AI scam on people.  My electric and water bills have already gone up.

Baumer9

Who cares about the separation of powers and the Tenth Amendment? Definitely not Trump.

Additional_Quiet2600

Anyone remember how scandalous it was when Obama “bypassed congress” and “made a ton of EOs”

Between Trumps 2 terms, he appears to have signed off more [EOs than Bush, Obama, and Biden](https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump%27s_executive_orders_and_actions,_2025)

BeefyMiracleWhip

The entire GOP for the past few decades: Local control! Local control! We know better than the feds how to run our (education, social welfare, abortion, you name it) departments!

Also the GOP: We don't trust local control! You can't make local laws about (gay rights, abortion, the use of AI...)

Whatever the subject, **never** listen to their supposed reasoning. Just follow the money.

Waste-Time-2440

Others have already said it, but it doesn't work that was, basically...get rekt

ianrl337

Agressive-toothbrush

Oh no. An executive order. Those aren't worth the autopen used to sign them.

UniqueEmotion2144

I don't have to honor EOs because I don't work for the Executive Branch. Kid Diddler would know that if he spent time learning over raping kids.

thistimelineisweird

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All other problems aside, this amendment is written so overbroadly that it plausibly forbids the passage of new basic data privacy legislation that already exists in about half of all states. Beyond that, there are uses of AI for deception that obviously should be regulated and this would prevent that.


It *must* be stripped out of the bill, it is a *very* bad idea.

Iuris_Aequalitatis

This should scare the shit out of any true conservative.

Simmumah

All republicans would be fighting tooth and nail against this bill (and rightfully so) if this was a “democrat” bill

MDtheMVP25

Ripamon

Terrible idea. Look at the police state the “patriot” act gave us in the false name of security.

anima201

So how long before centralizing AI regulations backfires and huge federal restrictions are put on AI due to some "unforseen" event.

And by Unforeseen I mean an AI expert was already warning people and nobody listened.

atomic1fire

Who wrote this, skynet? 

There is nothing conservative about this. This is big government control I would expect from Democrats.

DS_9

obalovatyk

That's insane. 

Reminds of when the vaccine makers were immune from being sued.

Key-Monk6159

This should have been a separate bill. I think there’s some merit to not having a patchwork of different stupid laws from all of the states but I do think with the speed this is moving it needs to be reviewed with each new Congress at least to see if we should make changes.

kw-42

Sometimes, you hear people say something like, "I generally really like [enter politician's name], but there have certainly been times where he/she did something that made me go, "Jesus! Seriously? What the hell are you thinking?!" This.. this right here.. this is, uh.. this is one of those times.

Pyrophagist

acreekofsoap

This won't survive the senate reconciliation rule. The provision has nothing to do with taxes and will be cut from the final bill.

Look_Up_Here

Definitely hoping that part about the AI regulation doesn’t go through…

kaijumediajames

Yeah this isn't good, i suggest a read on Astral codex as to why. Centralizing AI might have some positive effects but banning regulation definitely not. 

We still have to understand how revolutionary AI has and will be. If AI 2027 is even remotely accurate the failure of regulating an AGI would lead to catastrophic consequences. Personally i believe the chances of that are minimal, but since the cost of failure if we are wrong has has few comparisons why shouldn't we be a tad more careful with AI and our lives.

Outside_Ad_3888

Any AI "regulations" would either centralize the innovation to a few major players, or push that innovation to other countries where the regulations don't exist. You can put a server and code anywhere there's internet.

ControlledChimera

literally everything this administration does is a civil liberties nightmare. its by design.

timshel42

Creative-Fee-1130

Fuck Donald Trump and fuck you for voting for him.

thatfreshjive

Still have no idea what "woke" is, and I've got a hunch they don't either.

vonkillbot

President Trump ~~’s War On “Woke AI”~~ Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare

Fixed that for you

Alternative_Rent9307

ZucchiniIntrepid719

Anything that hurts my sensitive MAGA feelings is woke. These morons need to define woke if they're going to try to restrict it. But we know that they won't.  They'll just declare anything that they don't like as woke and strike it down. They just want to control everything the way they want.

Runkleford

Wasnt this administration trying to make it illegal to regulate AI?

austinmiles

Meanwhile the UK gov is claiming 55 percent of Britains support banning vpns to protect kids (wtf) Also who did they ask to claim that because it certainly wasn't me. 

Also Are governments allowed to lie about things like this because I'm thinking right now we need to bring back the gullitine

Getafix69

The word "woke" single handedly gave the entire right wing brain damage lmao

ZeMadDoktore

asillypeepee

Trump's war on intelligence is more appropriate

harajukubarbie

Didn't the big beautiful bill prevent AI regulation for 10 years?

Kreebish

I thought that said "Weird Al" at first and was preparing for complete pandemonium

ohTHOSEballs

If you think that’s interesting, you should read the articles about [Sam Altman and Effective Altruism](https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/1jmuhej/the_real_story_behind_sam_altmans_firing_from/) to learn more about the kind of AI they’re building at OpenAI. If humanity is going to move forward with AI, we need to find an alternative than relying on these billionaires to build it for us, otherwise it *will* work against us.

Original_Tip_432

It’s sad but not surprising how quickly the tech industry is censoring ai if not worse. There was one example where grok went off Elon’s message and he called it a glitch and indicated they would “fix” it. Actively making the product worse to suit their ideology. Does not inspire confidence in these things.

MovieGuyMike

I mean, yeah? Bigotry is literally the point of everything they do.

Exodor

A "cleansed" AI is for those too fragile to handle reality

motohaas

Wow, never thought I'd see "woke" and "AI" used together.

zenith_pkat

Everyday he lives is proof that god either doesn’t exist or hates us.

Fishtoart

Framing AI as ‘woke’ or ‘anti-woke’ completely misses the point. The real danger isn’t whether a chatbot offends someone; it’s the precedent of governments deciding what *thoughts* machines are allowed to generate. Today it’s AI, tomorrow it’s us.

besuretechno-323

The thing republicans hate more than other races is their own freedom. They've never forgiven the North for requiring them to have to make their own decisions for themselves, they've never wanted it.

Mazon_Del

Xiten

It’s really a war on generative AI that puts out results that aren’t MAGA lies… if I’ve wants that, then the AI has to be trained on only MAGA content, but since generative AI can only “learn” to “write” coherent English, there isn’t diffident MAGA only content to train it sufficiently. Any such generative AI developed like this would be just as stupid as the MAGAhats.

WraithAllenJr

Trump's main goal is to make white people be the victim of slavery ending.

Pleasant-Ad887

wavesink

President Trump ~~’s War On “Woke AI”~~ Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare

MutaitoSensei

Can we just sit him in front of a screen powered by AI and let him argue with it for the next 3 years? Or conversely have it heap praise on him so he feels important? He’d never leave the room

Basic-Record-4750

TrumpDoesn’t have the brain stem power to come up with all this shit I can almost guarantee he doesn’t even know what half the shit is. Mentally I’d say he’s back to a six year old. I could be wrong it could be five or four

y4udothistome

*gestures broadly*

Yeah, and so is all of this

Furcheezi

He wants war so he can remain in power under war-time rules.

GoboFrag

Idiot can't spell AI, how is he supposed to lead anything about it?

outerproduct

President Trump ~~’s War On “Woke AI”~~ Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare

Ftfy

Personally I'm not concerned about this for several reasons. 

1. There are too many companies in different countries working on independent models that can't all be beholden to a government agency that has no idea how to maintain or track them. 

2. All these companies aren't going to want to mess with their weights. You can't have biases like climate science calculated incorrectly because it requires messing with core fundamental rules in science and math. Messing with those i think may mess up the overall model. Either by messing up their response time or having a knock on effect into other fields that make the entire model useless for more bespoke users in science and programming. e.g. you want to make a weather app using chatgpt for a backend for whatever reason, but everytime you ask for an accurate temperature reading it's completely wrong because it triple checked its "government bias" to make sure that the temp doesn't correspond with a century of global warming values. (that's an over simplification but the point is the information will be wrong).

3. You probably CAN'T influence these models with biased data, not in a "you shouldn't influence them" more like "you physically can't". It has to cross check and verify all it's sources. chapgpt today can actually link you where it's sourcing it's information now too. Look at grok, it's literally owned and backed by the most trump sycophantic tech bro and every day it argues with maga on twitter /r/GROKvsMAGA If it COULD be influenced I have no doubt it would be. But for whatever reason to make it a valuable competitor they have to keep it as a constantly accurate tool. Every calculation, every quote, every scientific conclusion is cross checked with thousands of other resources. How can you deny something like, vaccines don't give you autism if every medical journal doesn't accept that, if every independent business doesn't accept that, if every educational institute doesn't back it up and even like a hillybilly with a clipboard who may have actually did his own research and came to the conclusion it doesn't make sense. How can AI appropriately say it? 

And kind of carried on from the first point, even if the government influences models of the companies within US space. That would give a HUGE boost to china and deepseek. You're nerfing the accuracy and reliability of your model and handing it over to your competitor.

dexter30

AI is already AD.  The huge AI'gold' rush has caused a major deficit in actual quality.  Folks paying attention have offered their services and been ignored over and over.  Trying to put significant restrictions on an already broken product will only break it more.

yaaaaaarrrrrgggg

President Trump~~’s War On “Woke AI”~~ Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare

InsertEvilLaugh

Like wtf does he want, to poison LLMs with Neo-Nazi content? If the internet is scrubbed for learning data and it pulls in untold amounts of studies, historical events, statistics, etc. and it ends up consistently coming to "woke" conclusions, is that not a sign that these conclusions are at least mostly accurate? Reality is woke.

headcodered

When there is nothing left to burn, you set yourself on fire

pintailcircus

It seems like it's going to come down to whether or not the military will continue to obey orders. They're certainly willing to be deployed domestically. They're going to start carrying guns soon. What's going to happen if/when they start shooting? 


I'm glad I don't live in NYC, Chicago or LA.

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