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Re: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

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White House AI czar and Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks elaborated on the rationale for the executive order in a post on X.

Sacks argued that this domain of “interstate commerce” was “the type of economic activity that the Framers of the Constitution intended to reserve for the federal government to regulate.”

At the Oval Office signing ceremony, Sacks said, "We have 50 states running in 50 different directions. It just doesn't make sense."

Re: Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

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Executive order (EO) count over the last few presidents:

* Bush (41): 166

* Clinton (two terms): 364

* Bush (43; two terms): 291

* Obama (two terms): 276

* Trump (45): 220

* Biden: 162

* Trump (47; Source:

* https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or...

Someone commented that (one of?) the reason that Trump is using EOs so much is probably because is not willing (or able) to actually get deals on in the legislature to pass his policies (or what passes for policy with him).

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