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Last week, President Trump applied his bold Sharpie signature to a new, highly anticipated executive order—one that attempts to establish a “national policy framework” for artificial intelligence. (I reported on the leaked draft several weeks ago.) The order, of course, is only the latest salvo in the administration’s ongoing campaign to prevent states from passing their own A.I.-related legislation—a move that Congress rejected earlier this year. As Trump put it: “We have the big investment coming, but if they had to get 50 different approvals from 50 different states, you can forget it because it’s impossible to do.”
