On Wednesday, The Trump administration has launched its new AI action plan, aiming to make the United States compete with China’s efforts. More than 90 policies are recommended, and it is an extensive document that, if followed, will provide more room for growth for the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley. “We believe we are playing in AI competitions,” White House AI Czar David Sacks said in a call ahead of the release of the Action Plan. “We want the United States to win this game.”
The Office of Science and Technology Policy has drafted the plan, which focuses on three key “pillars” of AI strategy: accelerating AI innovation, building infrastructure, and leading international diplomacy and security. The report begins with the emphasis: “AI cannot suffocate bureaucracy at this early stage, either at the state or at the federal level.” It recommends adopting a range of policies aimed at relaxing the regulations and burdens of tech companies that develop AI products, such as encouraging the Federal Communications Commission to “evaluate whether state AI regulations interfere with the agency’s ability to enforce its obligations and authorities under the Communications Act of 1934.”
“We need to build and maintain a vast AI infrastructure and the energy to power it. To do so, we will continue to reject radical climate dogma and bureaucratic traditional tape festivals, just as the government has done since its inauguration day.” “In short, we need to ‘built, baby, build!'”
In addition to the release of the report, President Donald Trump is expected to sign several execution orders late this afternoon, which are expected to map among the priorities outlined in the action plan.
AI has been a priority in the past two U.S. administrations, but Trump’s second term is characterized by major calibrations as the industry exploded in prominent situations. In October 2023, the Biden administration introduced an AI executive order aimed at addressing many risks posed by rapid development of AI models. The command focuses on issues such as AI models being used as cybersecurity weapons or helping to produce chemical or biological weapons as well as algorithmic bias. The new action plan explicitly attempts to revoke efforts made during the Biden administration, such as reviewing all FTC investigations it began to ensure that they do not advance the theory of responsibility, which inappropriately bears AI innovation.”
The plan is based on the Trump administration’s previous approach to AI. Shortly after Trump took office, Vice President JD Vance gave a speech at a large AI conference in Paris, where he raised the new administration’s priorities. “We believe that over-regulation of the AI sector could kill transformative industries like taking off, and we will do everything we can to encourage growth-driven AI policies,” Vance said. “We strongly believe that AI must get rid of ideological bias and that U.S. AI will not do it with U.S. AI to get tools for threat examiners.”
The AI Action Plan continues to oppose “wake up” AI’s crusades, suggesting updating federal procurement guidelines so that only AI companies “make sure their systems are objective and without top-down ideological bias” can obtain contracts.
