Trump delays AI executive order after tech industry pushback
U.S. President Donald Trump has delayed the signing of an executive order designed to regulate advanced artificial intelligence models.
“I didn’t like certain aspects of it. I postponed it,” Trump told reporters at a Thursday event in the Oval Office.
According to Politico, the decision came after several prominent tech industry figures expressed opposition to the directive. The group reportedly included Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and venture capitalist David Sacks, a former White House advisor. OpenAI Group PBC is said to have supported the order.
The White House reportedly shared a draft of the directive with private sector representatives late Tuesday. That version called on AI developers to submit certain frontier models to the federal government for review at least 90 days before their release. Additionally, the draft specified that participating companies should give critical infrastructure operators early access to their models.
