Trump Admin Working With Venture Capital, Big Tech to Inform AI Policy [Video]

It’s still early in the second Donald Trump administration, but his direction on tech and AI policy contains some clear elements. He’s appointed a few key advisers who will oversee policy developments in emerging areas including AI, crypto, data privacy and online freedom of speech, and he’s announced a new innovation initiative.

While the exact contours of the new administration’s plans are far from concrete, researchers and technology industry analysts predict less federal regulation in the future.

“It is clear that deregulation, continued deregulation, of absence of regulations” is the goal of the future, Tony Filippone, chief research officer at HFS, told Newsweek, noting that for the major tech companies now influencing the future of AI policy, the European Union‘s AI Act, which sets standards, guidelines and risk assessments for emerging automation technology, is a “significant encumbrance on these companies.”

One of the Trump administration’s first actions was to rescind the Biden-era executive order that addressed safety …