Trump Rescinds Biden AI Executive Order

President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise to rescind the Biden administration’s 2023 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence (AI). While Trump has yet to announce a new executive order (EO), his administration will likely focus less on safeguards and more on seeding further AI development. 

Risk mitigation characterized many of the Biden EO’s core provisions. Large AI labs, such as Google and OpenAI, faced reporting requirements under the EO. The Biden administration intended for the U.S. AI Safety Institute—created in the wake of the EO—to ensure that leading AI models did not pose excessive societal risks. Likewise, the Biden EO directed agencies to take several measures to prevent risks to the public from the integration of AI into federal workflows. 

In line with the GOP platform, which called for accelerating AI research and deployment, any forthcoming AI EO by the Trump Administration will likely omit safeguards related to privacy, misinformation, and bias. Trump’s desire to see the AI sector grow may explain why he did not rescind former Biden’s January 2025 EO on energy production with respect to data centers and AI development. 

Read the full list of rescissions here.