Donald Trump is calling for a unified national framework for artificial intelligence, saying the United States risks losing its lead if companies are forced to navigate a patchwork of state-level requirements.
In a fresh post on Truth Social, the US president warns that fragmented oversight would impose impossible hurdles on AI developers, while highlighting that a decentralized approval system would cripple innovation.
“There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI. We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won’t last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS. THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS.”
He says allowing each state to implement its own AI standards would halt progress entirely, prompting his plans to issue an executive order establishing a single national rulebook.
“AI WILL BE DESTROYED IN ITS INFANCY! I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week. You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something. THAT WILL NEVER WORK!”
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale echoes Trump’s sentiment, noting that a bad regulatory framework is the biggest risk for the American AI boom.
“The only way we’re going to have this whole thing implode and damage our national defense would be if we stop all these companies creating productivity from scaling. And then we couldn’t invest any more in the infrastructure at all, because these things would have been stopped. And then it would fall. But it’s not going to fall because it’s a bubble. It’s only going to fall because we screw up the regulation.”
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