At least for now, President Donald Trump’s attempt to block state efforts to regulate artificial intelligence doesn’t really do much of anything, legal experts said.

On Thursday, Trump issued an executive order embracing the idea pushed by many in the tech industry that regulation of the technology needs to take place at the national, rather than state, level. The president also ordered his administration, even while those national regulations are still in the conceptual stages, to take aim at state AI laws.

The order represents an effort by Trump to try to pressure states to drop such regulations by threatening to sue them or withhold certain funding, said Gowri Ramachandran, director of elections and security at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school. But

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