diff --git a/packages/angular-cli/blueprints/ng2/files/tslint.json b/packages/angular-cli/blueprints/ng2/files/tslint.json
index 2a8f2f212656..5a407126ed90 100644
--- a/packages/angular-cli/blueprints/ng2/files/tslint.json
+++ b/packages/angular-cli/blueprints/ng2/files/tslint.json
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
     "no-empty-interface": true,
     "no-eval": true,
     "no-inferrable-types": true,
-    "no-inferred-empty-object-type": true,
     "no-shadowed-variable": true,
     "no-string-literal": false,
     "no-string-throw": true,