Trump signs executive order on 'national framework' for AI regulation

President Donald Trump issued an executive order to create a national AI framework aimed at curbing state-level AI regulations by conditioning federal broadband funding, establishing a DOJ AI Litigation Task Force, and directing the Commerce Secretary to evaluate constitutional challenges; the administration argues this avoids a burdensome patchwork and ideological mandates, while privacy and civil liberties advocates, including EPIC, warn it will chill state accountability efforts and lacks clear authority to preempt state laws.