U.S. Government to Speed Up AI Adoption with Trump's new Plan - Policy blueprint aims to boost AI tool usage and encourage infrastructure development to secure leading position in worldwide artificial intelligence competition
President Donald Trump has released a new document titled "America's AI Action Plan," officially known as "Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan." This policy roadmap outlines key strategies to establish and maintain U.S. global dominance in artificial intelligence (AI).
The plan is structured around three core pillars:
- Accelerating AI Innovation: The removal of regulatory barriers that hinder AI development and encouragement of rapid innovation in AI technologies.
- Building American AI Infrastructure: The promotion of the expansion and modernization of critical physical infrastructure such as data centers and semiconductor manufacturing facilities. This includes simplifying federal permitting processes, and increasing workforce development in high-demand technical occupations.
- Leading in International AI Diplomacy and Security: Strengthening the export of America's complete AI technology stack securely to allies, enhancing cybersecurity around AI systems, preventing misuse of AI technologies, and engaging in international diplomacy to protect American interests.
The plan is guided by three foundational principles:
- Empowering American Workers: Ensuring the workforce benefits from AI advances.
- Ensuring Ideological Neutrality: Updating federal procurement guidelines to favor AI models free from ideological bias or partisan influence.
- Protection Against Misuse: Safeguarding AI technologies from theft, misuse, or emerging threats.
The plan aims to strengthen American AI technology globally by expediting the permitting and support for semiconductor fabs and data center builds, promoting deregulation to foster AI innovation and adoption within the private sector, exporting secure full-stack American AI capabilities to trusted allies, updating procurement policies so federal agencies use only AI systems demonstrating objectivity and ideological neutrality, and building an advanced AI incident response ecosystem and recruiting top AI researchers to government roles.
Following the release of this document, the White House's AI strategy is aimed at achieving supremacy in the AI race against China. The strategy is not an executive order but combines policy recommendations for executive branch agencies with a call for input from stakeholders to identify rules that "hinder AI innovation and adoption."
As the AI race heats up, the White House's AI agenda might lead to legal battles that could last months, if not years. For AI developers who want to secure government contracts, aligning with the current administration's priorities is crucial.
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[3] Office of Science and Technology Policy (2020). Memorandum on Regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI). [online] Available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-regulating-artificial-intelligence-ai/
[4] Office of Management and Budget (2020). Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies. [online] Available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/M-20-21.pdf
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- The White House's AI strategy, as outlined in the "America's AI Action Plan," emphasizes policy-and-legislation changes such as deregulation to foster AI innovation and adoption within the private sector, ensuring the appropriate use of artificial-intelligence technology by federal agencies, and strengthening international AI diplomacy and security to protect American interests.
- As part of the plan, the White House aims to lead in the race against China by securing government contracts for AI developers who align with their priorities, updating procurement policies to favor AI models free from ideological bias or partisan influence, and building an advanced AI incident response ecosystem to safeguard AI technologies from misuse or emerging threats.
