Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI

[orangecrush]

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national framework” for AI.

“This is an executive order that orders aspects of your administration to take decisive action to ensure that AI can operate within a single national framework in this country, as opposed to being subject to state level regulation that could potentially cripple the industry,” White House aide Will Scharf said of the executive order in the Oval Office.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/ai-trump-states-executive-order

So now stares will have no control over Musk and friends usurping state resources.

[Lovie777]

1. State's matter..............

it will be ignored.

[orangecrush]

2. I hope so

[Volaris]

10. Yep he may as well have issued an order that says you cant put your coffee table in front of the television.

[LearnedHand]

3. So executive order is not legislation right?

How exactly is this supposed to work? Does the constitution allow for presidents to overrule states by fiat? I know that’s not stopped this White House so far, but I was wondering about the actual law.

[orangecrush]

5. He enforces these orders

By tying funding up in courts.

[Happy Hoosier]

4. He can't make law with an EO.

What a fuckwit.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Lol. The king's "proclamation" will be ignored, as it should.

Expect to see an absolute BLIZZARD of toothless, silly and mostly ignored EOs from this Lame Duck.

[JBTaurus83]

7. The Supreme Joke

Will find a way to justify it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. This order has little, if any, legal effect

trump tried to get this in the big ugly bill but this provision was struck due to reconciliation rules.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220310522
This provision was struck from the ugly bill. The states will ignore this order and trump will lose any lawsuits filed to enforce this lawsuit

[OC375]

9. Come And Take It

Too much money involved. States will tell FedGov to pound sand, what with all that anticipated A.I. tax revenue and promised infrastructure upgrades.

Countdown to the inevitable A.I. Sanctuary States, performatively if not officially, in 3... 2...