Hassett: Trump Says US Already Has Tools for AI Regulation

The signal here is doctrinal: the White House is framing AI oversight as a matter of applying existing authority rather than building new regulatory architecture, which lowers the odds of near-term legislative action and shifts the practical locus of policy to agencies and enforcement. The dismissal of company-to-company warnings as an antitrust question matters for how coordination among large AI developers will be treated — a stance that could widen the gap between Washington and Brussels. Whether that hands-off posture holds as competitive and safety concerns accumulate is the open question.