President Donald Trump said he postponed a signing ceremony for his administration's much-anticipated executive order on the artificial intelligence industry.
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he postponed an upcoming signing ceremony for his administration's much-anticipated executive order on the artificial intelligence industry.
The event, which was set for later Thursday afternoon, was delayed "because I didn't like certain aspects of it," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
The U.S. is ahead of China and the rest of the world on AI and "I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that lead," Trump said.
He added that AI is "causing tremendous good," and he was concerned that the executive order "could have been a blocker." The postponement was first reported earlier Thursday by Axios. The White House referred CNBC to Trump's remarks when asked for comment on the delay.
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