Trump's call for AI deregulation gets strong backing from Big Tech

Spooked by generative AI's sudden advance, governments initially scrambled to develop guardrails, as major tech companies rapidly integrated the technology into their products.

Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has shifted focus toward accelerating AI development at all costs, pushing aside concerns about the models suffering hallucinations, producing deepfakes, or destroying human jobs.

«The AI future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,» Vice President JD Vance told world leaders at a recent AI summit in Paris.

This message unsettled international partners, particularly Europe, which had proudly established the EU AI Act as a new standard for keeping the technology in check.

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But, faced with America's new direction, European officials are now pivoting their messaging toward investment and innovation rather than safety.

«We're going to see a significant pullback in terms of the regulatory efforts… worldwide,» explained David Danks, professor of data science and philosophy at University of California San Diego.
«That certainly has been signaled here in the United States, but we're also seeing it in Europe.»

'Step back'

Tech companies are capitalizing on this regulatory retreat, seeking the freedom to develop AI technologies that they claim have been too constrained under the Biden administration.

One of Trump's first executive actions was dismantling Biden's policies, which had proposed modest guardrails for powerful AI models and directed agencies to