The US’s fast-paced tech sector is one of the key engines of growth Trump is relying on to grow America’s economy and keep the promises he made during the campaign. As a businessman prior to his last time as president, Trump also recognises the importance of helping companies expand.
From left to right, the CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez and her fiance Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at Trump’s iauguration (Photo: Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images)
And in a bumper signing of executive orders that took place after the inauguration, Trump further laid the path for tech companies to thrive under his presidency. Here’s what’s changed – and what it means.
“Among other common sense safeguards, this order protected Americans against AI fraud; protected families from AI discrimination in housing and the criminal justice system; and protected patients from unsafe AI tools in healthcare settings,” said Nicole Gill, co-founder and executive director of Accountable Tech, a non-profit.
It’s a boon for US AI companies like OpenAI that are trying to maintain tech supremacy over Chinese competitors. But experts worry it could cause more harm than good.
Championing free speech
Trump could resist moves to tackle tech moguls, ministers warned
Read MoreWithin the order’s text were claims that the previous administration had put “substantial coercive pressure on third parties such as social media companies, to moderate, de-platform, or otherwise suppress speech that the federal government did not approve.” The order claims the Biden White House weaponised the terms mis- and disinformation to infringe on free speech rights.
TikTok given a limited reprieve
One of those watching Trump’s actions most closely was Shou Chew, TikTok’s embattled CEO, who has seen his app banned by a Biden-era piece of legislation, a challenge knocked back by the Supreme Court, and the app going dark for a period just before the inauguration.
The order itself is weak, experts reckon, and doesn’t supersede the actual law upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this month. “The congressionally-passed law still applies during that time,” wrote Adam Kovacevich, founder and CEO of tech trade group Chamber of Progress, on Bluesky. “The law isn’t ‘waiting’ on Trump to decide what happens next.”
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