(The Hill) -- President Trump signed Thursday night an executive order to impose a national AI standard, a move that would limit states’ efforts to enact their own AI laws.

“We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote and that’s President Xi [Xinping],” Trump said, speaking in the Oval Office. “We have a different system, but we have a system that’s good. But we only have a system that’s good if it’s smart.”

White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks, who joined the president in the Oval alongside Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), said the order would give the administration “tools to push back on the most onerous and excessive state regulations.”

However, Sacks suggested they would not fight all state AI laws, pointing to kids’ safety

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