Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger

President Trump and his patrons in big tech have long wanted to block states from implementing their own AI regulations. After failing twice to do so in Congress, the US president has issued an executive order that would attempt to punish states that try to restrain the bot business.

The executive order, issued Thursday, largely mirrors a draft order leaked last month despite the White House declining to verify the draft's veracity.

In short, Trump has empowered Attorney General Pam Bondi to set up an AI Litigation Task Force "whose sole responsibility shall be to challenge state AI laws" that the administration considers inconsistent with its policy "to sustain and enhance the United States' global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI."

What that policy will look like remains undetermined, with Trump also declaring in the order that he wants his special advisor for AI ...