Lee Rainie, director of Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center, provided insight on what artificial intelligence regulations could like in President Donald Trump's new administration.
In a Jan. 21, 2025 National News Desk article “Trump axes Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence, plans to invest billions,” Lee Rainie, director of the Imagining the Digital Future Center, offered his perspective on what President’s Donald Trump’s plans for artificial intelligence (AI) could mean for the future.
“My guess is the disposition and values in this new administration will be towards pro-competition, pro-innovation and less concern about the safety things that are on people’s minds – bias and discrimination, hallucinations and making mistakes,” said Rainie.
Trump has called former President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI regulations a “dangerous executive order that hinders AI innovation and imposes radical leftwing ideas on the development of this technology.”
But Rainie says Trump may want to regulate AI himself, rather than other countries doing it first. Rainie notes that Trump was the first U.S. president to issue AI policies in 2019.
“It’s not like on day one, the policy is going to be flipped on its head,” Rainie said. “The Biden administration actually built on some of the things that were laid out in the original Trump policy, so there’s some elements of the Biden policy that will likely survive.”