Chairman Carr Applauds President Trump’s Executive Order on AI
FCC to Initiate Proceeding Examining Federal Reporting and Disclosure Standard

WASHINGTON, December 12, 2025—Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump signed an historic Executive Order, titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.  The E.O. promotes America’s leadership in AI and ensures our national and economic security.  It does so through several actions, including directing the Chairman of the FCC to initiate a proceeding to determine whether to adopt a Federal reporting and disclosure standard for AI models that preempts conflicting State laws.

Chairman Carr issued the following statement:

“President Trump’s historic Executive Order on artificial intelligence promotes America’s leadership in AI and advances our nation’s economic and national security interests.  It does so by targeting excessive state regulations that would not only hold America back but insert ideological bias into AI models.  President Trump’s decisive action also ensures a policy framework that protects children, prevents online censorship, respects copyrights, and safeguards communities.

“The FCC welcomes President’s Trump’s direction that the agency initiate a proceeding to determine whether to adopt a Federal reporting and disclosure standard for AI models that preempts conflicting State laws.”

Additional Background:

In January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, to advance U.S. national and economic security and strengthen America’s position in emerging technologies.  That Executive Order recognized that the nation is at the beginning of a transformative technological era and competing with global adversaries for leadership.

Since then, several states have enacted complex AI regulations that risk undermining innovation.  For example, California’s disclosure and reporting mandates were premised on speculative catastrophic risks, while Colorado’s law requires AI models to embed DEI preferences into their outputs.  These state level-approaches create a patchwork of conflicting rules that could allow the most restrictive jurisdictions to dictate national policy. 

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