How Trump Was Persuaded to Regulate A.I.
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:51.4 | Okay, here's today's show. |
| 0:57.5 | From New York Times, I'm Michael O'. This is the daily. Today, the story of how President Trump begrudgingly accepted that the most transformational |
| 1:13.9 | technology of our time, artificial intelligence, requires government oversight. |
| 1:21.6 | My colleague, Tripp Mickle, takes us inside the dramatic White House battle that has played out over the past few weeks |
| 1:28.8 | and previews the coming fight over just how far federal regulation of AI should go. |
| 1:38.7 | It's Thursday, June 4th. |
| 1:45.0 | Trip, welcome back to The Daily. |
| 1:46.0 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:48.0 | I want you to explain exactly what President Trump did a few days ago on Tuesday. |
| 1:54.0 | On Tuesday morning, as I was in the middle of my commute, I was bombarded with tax messages |
| 2:00.8 | saying that President Trump had, |
| 2:03.1 | to many people's surprise, |
| 2:04.9 | signed an executive order to regulate artificial intelligence. |
| 2:09.4 | And it gives the government, for the first time, really, |
| 2:12.6 | under the Trump administration, |
| 2:14.7 | oversight over AI models. |
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