‘One Rulebook’ to rule them all: President Trump to sign EO on AI regulations
President Donald Trump said Monday that he plans to sign an executive order this week aimed at streamlining AI development processes by severely limiting states’ rights on the regulatory front
by Summer Lane | December 8, 2025
President Donald Trump announced this week that he plans to sign an executive order establishing a singular “rulebook” to streamline the advancement of artificial intelligence technologies in the United States, setting the stage for likely arguments on the boundaries of states’ rights.
“There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead in AI,” the president wrote in a statement.
He continued, “We are beating ALL COUNTRIES at this point in the race, but that won’t last long if we are going to have 50 States, many of them bad actors, involved in RULES and the APPROVAL PROCESS. THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS! AI WILL BE DESTROYED IN ITS INFANCY!”
President Trump said that he would sign a “ONE RULE” executive order sometime this week addressing the situation.
The president’s statement comes as a showdown looms on the horizon between federal and state rights on the issue of AI oversight – a rapidly developing technology that many fear will soon expand beyond the boundaries of safety and controllability.
According to Tech Crunch, the U.S. Senate just killed an effort to regulate AI at the federal level after lawmakers attempted to insert this item into the National Defense Authorization Act.
Right now, a long list of states have already implemented AI regulatory legislation in an attempt to rein in the evolving technology. States like Arkansas, Montana, New York, and Oregon directly address these technologies with laws that implement transparency and standards for how AI is used.
However, each state’s laws and frameworks are entirely different.
“You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something. THAT WILL NEVER WORK!” President Trump argued this week in his statement.
Per Tech Crunch, Silicon Valley power players like OpenAI President Greg Brockman would, naturally, like to see a singular streamlined framework for approving AI tech, rather than work with each state amid many varying laws.
An alleged draft of the president’s executive order may direct the U.S. Attorney General to create an “AI Litigation Task Force,” whose duty it would be to “challenge State AI Laws on the ground that such laws unconstitutionally regulate interstate commerce.”
It is unclear at this time when the president plans to sign this new upcoming executive order, or whether such a rumored task force will be created at his direction.
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