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Joe Biden
As US president, Joe Biden oversaw the most far-reaching federal action on AI to date. In October 2023 he signed Executive Order 14110 on "safe, secure, and trustworthy" AI — a roughly 20,000-word order that, among many provisions, used the Defense Production Act to require companies training the largest models to notify the government and share safety-test results, the first time a government asserted visibility into frontier training runs and the first use of a compute threshold as a regulatory trigger. It also created what became the US AI Safety Institute. Because Congress passed no comprehensive AI law, the order rested on executive discretion, and it was revoked by Donald Trump on his first day in office in January 2025.
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Trump revokes Biden's AI executive order
EO 14110 was rescinded on day one, replaced days later by an order framed around removing barriers to American AI leadership.
Government & policy
Biden signs executive order on AI infrastructure on federal land
The order let developers lease Defense and Energy Department land for AI data centres with clean-power commitments; Trump revoked it six months later with his own permitting order.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
AI-generated fake Biden robocall urges New Hampshire voters to skip primary
Thousands of New Hampshire Democrats received a cloned Biden voice telling them a primary vote would forfeit their choice in November; the operative behind it was fined and criminally charged.
Culture & impact · Security & misuse · Government & policy
Biden signs the executive order on safe and trustworthy AI
The most far-reaching US action on AI to date: compute thresholds, mandatory safety reporting, and a new safety institute.
Government & policy · Safety & alignment
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