{"id":253201,"date":"2026-05-21T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/white-house-postpones-signing-of-ai-executive-order\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:40:17","slug":"white-house-postpones-signing-of-ai-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/white-house-postpones-signing-of-ai-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"White House postpones signing of AI executive order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/white-house-postpones-signing-ai-executive-order\/413697\/\">White House postpones signing of AI executive order<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/white-house-postpones-signing-ai-executive-order\/413697\/\">https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/white-house-postpones-signing-ai-executive-order\/413697\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 12:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nextgov.com\">www.nextgov.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The White House postponed a highly anticipated signing of an artificial intelligence executive order, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The order was expected to task national security and civilian agencies with various steps to shore up federal government network defenses using AI models and, notably, establish a voluntary framework for the government to view AI models ahead of release.<\/p>\n<p>The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide the details. It\u2019s not entirely clear why the signing was postponed, though some of the people said that multiple tech CEOs expected to attend the order\u2019s Thursday afternoon signing ceremony could not make it.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump expressed misgivings about the order, particularly on Chinese AI competition, according to an Oval Office press report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t like certain aspects of it, I postponed it. I think it gets in the way of, you know, we\u2019re leading China, we\u2019re leading everybody, and I don\u2019t want to do anything that\u2019s going to get in the way of that lead. We have a very substantial standard on AI, it&#8217;s causing \u2014 it&#8217;s causing tremendous good, and it&#8217;s also bringing in a lot of jobs, tremendous numbers of jobs,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAgain, we have more people working right now than we\u2019ve ever had. I really thought that could have been a blocker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This story was updated to include remarks from President Donald Trump<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/white-house-postpones-signing-ai-executive-order\/413697\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House postpones signing of AI executive order https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/white-house-postpones-signing-ai-executive-order\/413697\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-21 12:14:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.nextgov.com\/media\/img\/cd\/2026\/05\/21\/GettyImages_2276710663\/open-graph.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,20],"class_list":["post-253201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253203,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253201\/revisions\/253203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}