Dec. 11 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday night that limits states' ability to regulate artificial intelligence companies.
The order is designed "to sustain and enhance the United States' global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI," according to a release on the White House website.
"To win, United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation," the order says. "But excessive State regulation thwarts this imperative."
Trump has been a strong proponent of U.S. leadership in AI development, and said at the executive order signing ceremony Thursday night that AI companies "want to be in the United States, and they want to do it here, and we have big investment coming. But if they had to get 50 different approvals from 50 different states, you could forget it."
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