SAN FRANCISCO -- President Donald Trump faces a rift in the Make America Great Again movement as Republican officials from statehouses to Capitol Hill warn his full-throated embrace of the tech industry's artificial intelligence boom risks undermining Americans' economic security and exposing their children to new harms.

Trump has appointed influential tech investors and entrepreneurs to key positions in his administration and backed the sector's ambitions for AI, scrapping regulations introduced by former President Joe Biden and facilitating huge investments from foreign companies and governments into American AI firms.

This past week, the White House explored using an executive order to quash state regulation on AI. The president has trumpeted the billions of dollars in investments flo

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