{"id":23213,"date":"2026-05-23T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/how-big-tech-got-its-way-on-trumps-ai-executive-order\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:37:45","slug":"how-big-tech-got-its-way-on-trumps-ai-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/how-big-tech-got-its-way-on-trumps-ai-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"How big tech got its way on Trump\u2019s AI executive order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president\u2019s reversal on calling for a safety review of new AI models is a green light for tech\u2019s unchecked power<\/p>\n<p>Only hours before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> was set to sign a long-awaited executive order on Thursday that would have called for a government safety review of new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> models before their release, the president abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/22\/donald-trump-ai-china-iran-war-powers-hormuz-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6a102b318f089865cf41acd6#block-6a102b318f089865cf41acd6\">backed out<\/a>. Despite growing public backlash to the technology and experts warning new models will pose critical security risks, Trump vowed the US government would not slow down the AI race.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting with reporters on Thursday, Trump cited both American dominance and competition with China and as his reasoning behind the reversal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/23\/trump-ai-order-big-tech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1fc1c3f2c938f57503782eed5cb531731e192afa\/333_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=065c45aef388a8fd12e84ff23985cb61\" title=\"How big tech got its way on Trump\u2019s AI executive order\" \/>The US president\u2019s reversal on calling for a safety review of new AI models is a green light for tech\u2019s unchecked power<br \/>\nOnly hours before Donald Trump was set to sign a long-awaited executive order on Thursday that would have called for a government safety review of new artificial intelligence models before their release, the president abruptly backed out. Despite growing public backlash to the technology and experts warning new models will pose critical security risks, Trump vowed the US government would not slow down the AI race.<br \/>\nDuring a meeting with reporters on Thursday, Trump cited both American dominance and competition with China and as his reasoning behind the reversal. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president\u2019s reversal on calling for a safety review of new AI models is a green light for tech\u2019s unchecked power Only hours before Donald Trump was set to sign a long-awaited executive order on Thursday that would have called for a government safety review of new artificial intelligence models before their release, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/how-big-tech-got-its-way-on-trumps-ai-executive-order\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How big tech got its way on Trump\u2019s AI executive order<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}