The White House unveiled its “AI Action Plan” last week, consisting of a 28-page document laying out three pillars of AI policy in the US:
- Accelerating AI innovation
- Building American AI infrastructure
- Leading international diplomacy and security around AI
Highlights from the action plan include:
- Deleting “references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change” and prohibiting the federal government from contracting with LLM developers unless they “ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias” — which hasn’t explicitly been defined yet.
- Recommending that the U.S. “reject radical climate dogma and bureaucratic red tape” to win the AI race.
- Removing state and federal regulatory hurdles for AI development by denying states AI-related funding if their rules “hinder the effectiveness of that funding or award.”
- Cutting rules that slow building data centers and semiconductor manufacturing facilities.
- Expanding the power grid to support “energy-intensive industries of the future.”
- Create a “try-first” culture for AI across American industry, which feels a bit like “ask for forgiveness, not permission.”
- Fostering science and research around AI development.
- Investing in biosecurity as AI is used to find new cures for diseases.
- Creating the necessary legal framework to combat deepfakes.
President Trump followed up with a speech at an AI Summit in Washington where he:
- Signed an executive order titled “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” directing government agencies “not to procure models that sacrifice truthfulness and accuracy to ideological agendas.”
- Dismissed copyright payments for AI training, saying, “You can’t be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or whatever you’ve studied you’re expected to pay for.”
Major AI firms like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic have not publicly condoned or opposed the plan, likely due to the plan’s favorable treatment of the private sector.
