#regulatory-rollback

#regulatory-rollback

In late July, the President launched his AI action plan. Packaged with three accompanying executive orders, the plan's first order of business is to "remove red tape and onerous regulation," including the overturning of the Biden administration's executive order on AI, which emphasized harm-prevention, guardrails, and government capacity-building. One very specific "guardrail" that the Trump administration has demolished is "woke AI"-AI that is trained to avoid the truth in favor of politically correct shibboleths.

In 2023, truck manufacturers struck a deal with the California Air Resources Board to drastically reduce emissions and invest in electric trucks. This summer, however, several of the companies - Daimler Truck, Volvo Group, Paccar and Traton - backed out of the partnership and sued California, with support from the Trump administration. Now fossil-fuel-aligned corporations are leveraging political connections to weaken oversight, erode environmental protections and entrench their dominance.