Curbing the authority of states, US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order blocking them from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national framework” for AI.

“This is an executive order that orders aspects of your administration to take decisive action to ensure that AI can operate within a single national framework in this country, as opposed to being subject to state-level regulation that could potentially cripple the industry,” White House aide Will Scharf said of the executive order in the Oval Office.

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