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Gerry
5/22/20261 min read
Despite such assurances, former Trump AI czar David Sacks raised concerns that the voluntary reviews may one day become mandatory, a senior White House official told POLITICO on Thursday.
The draft also includes language aimed at bad actors. It directs the attorney general to enforce the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and “other applicable Federal criminal laws against anyone who utilizes AI to illegally access or damage a computer without authorization, or who utilizes AI while engaged in such illegal access to further any other crime.”
Administration officials had briefed major tech companies about the order’s contents this week, and top AI industry executives had been invited to attend a Thursday signing ceremony at the White House.
But Trump told reporters he hit the brakes.
“I didn’t like certain aspects of it,” the president said, adding that he worried the order might slow U.S. efforts to beat China in the race to dominate AI.
The administration has not said what changes might be made in the order or when the signing might be rescheduled.