On 20 January 2025, the first day of his second term, President Trump revoked Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (“Biden Order”), signed by President Biden in October 2023. In doing so, President Trump fulfilled a campaign pledge to roll back the Biden Order, which the 2024 Republican platform described as a “dangerous” measure. Then on 23 January 2025, President Trump issued his own Executive Order on AI, entitled Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.

The US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI), housed within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), announced on 20 November 2024 the release of its first synthetic content guidance report, NIST AI 100 4 Reducing Risks Posed by Synthetic Content: An Overview of Technical Approaches to Digital Content Transparency. “Synthetic content” is defined in President Biden’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI as “information, such as images, videos, audio clips, and text, that has been significantly altered or generated by algorithms, including by AI.”