President Trump's executive order seeking to bar state laws on artificial intelligence that he says slow innovation will face political and legal opposition from states seeking to preserve their right to regulate the rapidly growing technology.
The order instructing federal agencies to sue and withhold funds from states whose AI laws the administration deems problematic is a win for tech companies, who argue a patchwork of state laws hinders U.S. competition with China on AI. But the Trump administration will face legal obstacles in implementing it, experts said, and potential opposition from Republican states.
"There is not a lot of legal authority that the administration can rely on to enforce a significant portion of the order," said Joel Thayer, head of the Digital Progress Institute.
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