What does a Trump win mean for American AI Policy? This is a question that I have been asked by policymakers time and time again over the past months. With the results of the election now clear, I thought it would be prudent to write up some of the main points.
During Trump’s first term as President, he announced multiple executive orders on AI. In 2019, Trump announced an EO on “Maintaining American Leadership In Artificial Intelligence” and then in 2020 signed an EO on “Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government”. Drawing on his past pro-American technology agenda and the broad support from the American tech ecosystem during this campaign cycle, it is highly likely that we will see substantial attention paid to improving and leveraging America’s technology ecosystem – domestically and globally.
In Trump’s platform, he has promised to “repeal Joe Biden’s dangerous Executive Order that hinders AI Innovation, and imposes Radical Leftwing ideas on the development of this technology.” I would expect Trump to deliver on this fairly early on and move the US back towards a use-case and sector-specific approach....