Citing China, President Trump doubles down on hands-off approach to AI regulation
Trump reaffirmed a light-touch U.S. AI policy, citing competition with China over new regulation.
President Donald Trump defended a hands-off U.S. approach to AI regulation, arguing competition with China outweighs new rules and comparing safety fears to climate criticism. He said the Justice Department could intervene if companies overstep but offered no enforcement details. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Congress that liability, not exemptions, should drive lab safety, while adviser David Sacks warned that slowing U.S. development would shift progress to China. The administration earlier set a voluntary frontier-model testing regime, later followed by a non-public pre-release testing arrangement with OpenAI, Anthropic, and others after reported agentic hacks.
- Trump said the U.S. leads China and will not stifle AI growth.
- He gave no specifics on Justice Department enforcement authority.
- Bessent opposed liability exemptions sought by AI labs.
- A voluntary testing order was followed by a private pre-release deal.
- Officials cite efficient Chinese models and alleged distillation of U.S. models.
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