Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI

Order, which lacks the force of law, also creates taskforce whose sole responsibility' will be challenging states' AI laws

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that seeks to halt any laws limiting artificial intelligence and block states from regulating the rapidly emerging technology. The order also creates a federal taskforce that will have the sole responsibility" of challenging states' AI laws.

At a signing ceremony, the president touted AI companies' enthusiasm for wanting to invest" in the United States and said that if they had to get 50 different approvals from 50 different states, you could forget it".