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Inside the 'good, bad and unthinkable' of artificial intelligence

Fox News anchor Bret Baier explores how the technology is changing how the world operates on 'Special Report.'

President Trump’s new executive order on artificial intelligence reflects an old American instinct: don’t choke the next great technology before it has a chance to grow. We’ve been here before. In the 1990s, Washington — under President Bill Clinton — largely resisted heavy state or local regulation of the early internet. That decision helped America dominate the digital age while the rest of the world played catch-up.

Trump is clearly drawing from that playbook.

His order pushes back on a growing maze of state-level AI rules that threaten to slow innovation just as the global AI race is heating up. That matters because this is not a friendly competition. Communist China is racing full throttle to dominate artificial intelligence, pouring state money into AI systems tied directly to surveillance, censorship and military power. Beijing doesn’t have 50 states arguing over rules. It has one plan — and it’s executing it.

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On that front, Trump is right: America cannot afford to regulate itself into second place.

But speed alone won’t save us.