In March, though, the Trump administration sent to Congress a policy framework for AI regulation. According to The Washington Post, the White House finalized the framework for voluntary government review of new AI models, but it exempts “open weight” models favored by many in Silicon Valley because they can be built more cheaply. A 2025 Pew Research Center study found that about 47% of U.S. adults polled don’t trust the federal government to regulate AI. “There actually appears to be pretty widespread flouting of those rules,” West said. “We don’t know how AI aggregates information,” West said.