Origin: Trump preempts state AI regulation

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, 2025 to stop states from regulating artificial intelligence. It creates a Justice Department AI Litigation Task Force to sue states over their AI laws and calls for a single, lighter national standard. The order cites California’s new safety‑testing disclosures for advanced AI models and Colorado’s anti‑bias rules for hiring as examples to target.

The order directs the commerce secretary to review state AI rules for conflicts, including laws that require AI systems to change truthful outputs or compel disclosures that could violate free‑speech protections. It tells Commerce to halt remaining federal broadband grants to states with conflicting laws, and instructs federal agencies to consider conditioning other grants on states not enacting or enforcing those rules.

It asks the FCC to weigh a federal reporting and disclosure standard that would override conflicting state requirements, and tells the FTC to issue a policy arguing that state rules forcing changes to truthful AI outputs are already barred by federal consumer‑protection law. The White House legislative office is to draft a proposal for a single national framework that would supersede conflicting state AI laws. The administration said it does not plan to target child‑safety measures.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources