Internal Chaos Follows Trump's Cancellation of AI Regulation Executive Order
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Hugo Lowell, Maxwell Zeff
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Summary
The Trump administration is in internal turmoil after President Trump abruptly canceled a planned executive order on AI regulation. In the weeks since, officials and Silicon Valley executives have been engaged in chaotic discussions about whether a revised order can be resurrected. AI executives have expressed uncertainty about what any new executive order might require or if one will be signed at all. The situation highlights deep internal divisions within the administration over how to approach AI regulation.
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The conversations in the weeks since have been widely viewed as chaotic, by both key Silicon Valley players and administration officials.
Some AI executives have privately told WIRED they are uncertain what a revised executive order might require, or whether one will end up being signed at all.
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