https://qz.com/1275201/the-us-plan-for-ai-is-to-let-google-facebook-and-amazon-do-what-they-want/

Trump technology adviser Michael Kratsios told US tech and business giants not to fear AI regulation in a private meeting today (May 10) but offered little in terms of a formal government-led framework—a sign the US will buck the global trend of massive public re-investment into artificial intelligence.

The administration’s primary objective is not to dictate what kind of AI systems to build or plan how AI development should proceed, according to prepared remarks made by Kratsios. Instead, he said, it is opting to step out of the way of private companies. “We didn’t cut the lines before Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call,” Kratsios said. “We didn’t regulate flight before the Wright Brothers took off at Kitty Hawk.”