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How the Trump administration changed AI: A timeline


On Wednesday, the Trump administration is expected to announce its AI policy. Here's how we got here - and what might happen next.

The rollback communicated "the Trump administration's willingness to overlook the potential dangers of AI," Peter Slattery, a researcher on MIT's FutureTech team who led its Risk Repository project, told ZDNET at the time. Show more Shortly after Trump reversed Biden's order on his first day in office, the former head of the US AISI, Elizabeth Kelly -- now overseeing Beneficial Deployment at Anthropic -- stepped down in late February. Show more On one hand, the lack of emphasis on safety regulations or transparency requirements -- a priority for Biden's AISI -- could read as a way to ensure AI tools fast‑track a path to approval for lucrative military contracts.

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