Trump to create American AI Initiative with executive order

President Donald Trump will push AI with an executive order Monday, several outlets reported. President Donald Trump is directing federal agencies to focus on artificial intelligence (AI), multiple outlets have reported. The Trump administration is going to create the American AI Initiative with an executive order on Monday, according to the New York Times and Reuters. The order won't include specific funding for the initiative, an administration official told outlets on a conference call, but will reportedly focus on five areas: The news comes less than a week after Trump's second State of the Union, which was light on technology aside from a passing reference to the administration's infrastructure plan. Last October, Google withdrew from competition for a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract, saying it might conflict with its principles for ethical use of AI.