Trump Orders Agencies to 'Revise or Rescind' Regs Created Under Biden's AI EO
President Donald Trump last week revoked the Biden administration’s 2023 executive order on artificial intelligence, which could have ramifications for recent AI-related export controls issued by the Bureau of Industry and Security.
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Trump said Biden’s order, EO 14110 (see 2310300029), “hinders AI innovation and imposes onerous and unnecessary government control over the development of AI.” He also ordered U.S. agencies to “revise or rescind all policies, directives, regulations, orders, and other actions taken under the Biden AI order that are inconsistent with enhancing America’s leadership in AI.”
BIS issued an interim final rule earlier this month that created a new AI export control framework and introduced new license requirements for certain closed artificial intelligence model weights (see 2501130026 and 2501230043). That BIS rule referenced EO 14110.
The rescission of the order, along with the “burgeoning alignment” of the U.S. technology sector with the new Trump administration, “appears to signal the tech industry’s expectation of the Administration’s pro-innovation and deregulated stance on AI,” law firm Quarles & Brady said in a client alert.
But the law firm also said it’s unclear how exactly any AI-related rules will be impacted and whether Congress will intervene. “The rescinded EO 14110 presented solutions that had bipartisan Congressional support at one time, such as efforts to improve national security, as well as efforts to bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry,” it said.