Trump Signs EO 14179 Revoking Biden AI Safety Order and Dismantling NIST Oversight

President Trump signed Executive Order 14179 on his first day in office, revoking Biden's Executive Order 14110 on AI safety and dismantling the NIST AI Safety Institute's oversight framework. The order directed agencies to eliminate regulations that allegedly impeded AI innovation and instructed the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a new AI action plan within 180 days. Critics warned it removed the only federal mechanism requiring AI developers to share safety testing results with the government before deployment.