TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER ON DEVELOPING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 'FREE FROM IDEOLOGICAL BIAS'

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will revoke past government policies his order says "act as barriers to American AI innovation."

To maintain global leadership in AI technology, “we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas,” Trump’s order says.

The new order doesn't name which existing policies are hindering AI development but sets out to track down and review “all policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions taken” as a result of former President Joe Biden’s sweeping Al executive order of 2023, which Trump rescinded this week. Any of those Biden-era actions must be suspended if they don’t fit Trump’s new directive that Al should “promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security.”

Last year, the Biden administration issued a policy directive that said U.S. federal agencies must show their artificial intelligence tools aren’t harming the public, or stop using them. Trump’s order directs the White House to revise and reissue those directives, which affect how agencies acquire Al tools and use them.

Biden’s executive order, the Trump administration said, “established unnecessarily burdensome requirements for companies developing and deploying Al that would stifle private sector innovation and threaten American technological leadership.”