The exponential growth and adoption of AI has nudged the White House to start considering appropriate measures to regulate the sector. According to latest reports, the Trump administration has started working on fresh regulatory mechanisms to control AI models by vetting them before they go commercial for public engagement.
In the coming weeks or months, U.S. President Donald Trump could sign an executive order ordering the establishment of a working group on AI. Similar to the crypto task force that President Trump had set up under the SEC in 2025, this working group would be tasked with chalking out the roadmap to regulating AI in the U.S.
At present, OpenAI and Google along with Anthropic, Microsoft, Perplexity, and xAI are among prominent names in the industry. The White House has already started informing these AI players about possible plans with AI regulations, a New York Times report said on Monday citing sources familiar with the ongoing discussions.
No confirmation on the NYT has been issued as of now, neither from Washington D.C. nor from members of the AI industry. The news, however, has opened the floor for industry analysts to raise concerns.
Adam Thierer, innovation research analyst at the R Street Institute think tank, pointed out that any kind of a preemptive screening of AI models by the White House could be equivalent to a de facto licensing regime.
“The Trump administration’s first order of business on AI policy when it came into office was eliminating a massive Biden admin AI executive order that over-reached in various ways. We don’t want to go down that path again,” Thierer said.
Thierer noted that the U.S. Congress must prioritize a national policy framework for AI governance to oversee frontier model concerns while addressing the existing fragmentation in sate laws.
Brian Cardarella, the CEO of web consultancy firm DockYard joined the conversation on X to highlight that researchers must be tasked with formulating AI laws, and not members from the tech industry.
In recent days, the state of Colorado has introduced an AI-focussed bill ridding firms using AI of disclosing details on their decisions on hiring and loans. The bill essentially proposes that companies using AI will have to notify users if they are using AI assistance to make these kinds key decisions. The proposed Senate Bill 189 has met with major backlash on social media. If passed, the bill could come into action as soon as June 1, 2026.
While the U.S. is still in the process of taking its first step towards AI regulations, the U.K. has already rolled out the National Policy Framework for AI in March this year.