Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI… I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week. You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something.
— President Donald Trump, in comments given on Truth Social and noted by Reuters, concerning his intent to sign an executive order this week that will create a national rule governing artificial intelligence in America, overruling existing state laws on the subject.
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