President Donald Trump just announced that he plans to issue an executive order this week to set federal rules around artificial intelligence—and prevent states from setting their own.

“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,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday. “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.”

The executive order is just the latest dramatic act of deregulation from Trump, who, since taking office, has slashed rules from banking regulations to environmental protections. Under Trump’s plan, the federal government’s framework on AI would override any rules that individual states might put in place to shape the technology’s use or development. 

Trump’s AI executive order isn’t out yet, but a draft version that circulated last month proposed an aggressive framework that would go as far as creating a federal legal task force designed to punish states with AI regulations. Under the order, which........

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