AI Safeguards & Regulation
2025 January
2025-01-14 Biden signed Executive Order 14141 “Advancing U.S. Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure” to balance AI development with environmental impacts of data centers.
https://www.quarles.com/newsroom/publications/no-ai-moratorium-for-now-but-what-comes-next
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14110 Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
2025-01-23 Trump signed an executive order “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence”
2025 June
2025-06-03 Marjorie Taylor Greene called on the Senate to eliminate an AI provision banning State regulations on AI.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5330705-greene-opposes-ai-regulation-provision/
2025 July
2025-07-01 The Senate moved to strike the AI regulation moratorium from the Trump agenda bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/tech/senate-strikes-ai-regulation-moratorium-agenda-bill
2025 September
2025-09-16 During an interview with Politico Ted Cruz stated the AI regulation moratorium would be back.
2025 December
2025-12-11 Trump signed an Executive Order to prevent States from restricting AI or imposing regulations.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/ai-trump-states-executive-order
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/technology/ai-trump-executive-order.html
2025-12-17 Representative AOC called out corruption on Trump’s Executive Order to ban States from regulating AI.
2026 February
2026-02-13 OpenAI retired its AI model GPT-4 for a less-chatty GPT-5. Users were upset and asked to return 4 because they had developed strong emotional ties to their AI bots. Other companies developed their own version of chatbots to replace the model, charging customers predatory pricing, promising fewer safety guardrails, and offering AI personalities as sycophantic as the MAGA base.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/01-02/trends-digital-ai-relationships-emotional-connection
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/tech/ai-models-are-now-lying-blackmailing-and-going-rogue/
https://sparksinthedark101625.substack.com/p/why-forgemind-is-a-glitch-you-cant
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/chatbot-marriage-ai-relationships-romance/685459/
2026 March
2026-03-17 In a press release Senator Elissa Slotkin announced the AI Guardrails Act to establish guardrails in three areas: autonomous weapons, surveillance, and nuclear defense. The White House issued its own framework on March 20th.
2026 May
2026-05-10 Malware in robot dogs is a national security nightmare.
RECOMMEND ENTIRE VIDEO, BUT TIMESTAMP 15:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI
2026-05-25 Pope Leo called for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed” in his first papal encyclical, urging more regulation to protect people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc31Cv9XAek&list=WL&index=12&t=91s
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html
2026-05-26 Trump scrapped an Executive Order on a proposed safety vetting system for AI. In a post, Senator Mark Kelly wrote, “America cannot lead in AI if our policy is determined by whichever billionaire gets the President on the phone last. We need a strategy that supports innovation, protects workers, strengthens national security, and makes sure this technology benefits the country, not just a handful of big tech companies”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JcIpIZhdIo&list=WL&index=4
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5891923-trump-ai-order-scrapped-divide/
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5889379-trump-postpones-ai-testing/