Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, told Nextgov/FCW in a statement that the GOP platform “is an unsurprising response to the Biden administration’s move to exert so much unilateral authority over AI policy through a massive 110-page executive order.”

“That move quickly politicized this issue and derailed the bipartisan momentum for legislative action, which had been growing until then,” he said. “The White House should have worked with Congress on AI policy before blazing its own regulatory trail.”

“That move quickly politicized this issue and derailed the bipartisan momentum for legislative action, which had been growing until then,” he said. “The White House should have worked with Congress on AI policy before blazing its own regulatory trail.”