President Donald Trump announced his plan to sign an executive order establishing a single national artificial intelligence (AI) policy for all 50 states on Truth Social this week. In his post, Trump indicated his "one rulebook" approach was necessary to avoid "bad actors" in states as they look to roll out their own preemptive policies to deal with the ever-evolving technology.
"There must be only one Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won't last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS. THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS! AI WILL BE DESTROYED IN ITS INFANCY. "
Trump mentioned he would sign the executive order this week.
"You can't expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something," Trump continued. "THAT WILL NEVER WORK!"
Trump's statement follows Gov. Ron DeSantis's plan to establish an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bill of Rights for Florida last week.
The plan, in partnership with the Florida Legislature, includes data protections against Chinese influence, safeguards against name, image, and likeness (NIL) schemes, and guardrails for parents and children against LLM chatbots, which are AI-generated agents that use a large language model to create human-like text, among other potential policies.
Notably, the Florida Legislature plans to talk about AI beginning today.
"This will be very far-reaching with consumer protections. It will do things like fortify some of the protections we have in place for things like deep fakes and use of explicit material, particularly those that depict minors," DeSantis said during a press conference.
How this will conflict with the president's announcement is anyone's guess. Regardless, AI will be a headline topic by the federal government and states as 2026 draws closer.
