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Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory


Trump plans to repeal Biden’s 2023 order and levy tariffs on GPU imports.

The order also directed the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop guidance to help companies identify and fix flaws in their AI models. His AI company, xAI, which makes the Grok-2 language model, stands alongside his other ventures—Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, and X (formerly Twitter)—as businesses that could see regulatory changes in his favor under a new administration. But with a different AI environment these days in the wake of ChatGPT and media-reality-warping image synthesis models, those earlier orders don't likely point the way to future positions on the topic.

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